LOS ANGELES \u2014 The losses are piling up on and off the field.<\/p>\n
The Padres, who entered Friday\u2019s game at Dodger Stadium looking to avoid falling below .500 for the first time since the season\u2019s second week, placed catcher Freddy Fermin on the 10-day injured list with a head bruise and starting pitcher Randy V\u00e1squez on the 15-day IL with a right ankle bruise.<\/p>\n
That comes a day after the Padres took a significant hit to the bullpen when right-hander Jason Adam went on the IL with a strained muscle in his throwing shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough on everybody, It\u2019s tough on the team, it\u2019s tough on the individuals that it happens to,\u201d manager Craig Stammen said. \u201cBut also, we know that we\u2019ve got a collective unit that can band together. We\u2019re making that foxhole tight, and you know, using it as a viewpoint of, like, this is testing us. And what comes from testing? We think perseverance, determination and resilience.<\/p>\n
And those are good qualities, and so if we use this to our advantage and those qualities come out from it, we\u2019ll be in good shape going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catcher Luis Campusano was activated off his rehab assignment after missing the past eight weeks with a fractured big toe. Reliever Alek Jacob was recalled to take V\u00e1squez\u2019s spot on the active roster. It is not known what the Padres will do when V\u00e1squez\u2019s turn in the rotation comes up Tuesday against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n
Campusano played just two games in Triple-A, including behind the plate for nine innings Thursday. The Padres were leaning toward him returning Monday but moved that timeline up when Fermin got hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe a little early,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cI think we would have let him play a few more games. But circumstances changed that. He\u2019s healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fermin left Monday\u2019s game, the Padres\u2019 sixth consecutive defeat, after taking a foul tip off his face mask. It was at least the 10th time he has taken such a hit. He went on the concussion IL on June 14 after being hit in the side of the head a day earlier by a bounced warmup pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know the hits that Freddy has taken to the head throughout the course of the season,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cAnd while he did not get diagnosed with a concussion (Thursday), we felt it was smart to take care of him and just give him a little bit more time to heal up from that previous concussion without getting another head blow.\u201d<\/p>\n
V\u00e1squez was hit by a 99 mph line drive in Thursday\u2019s first inning. He pitched through the third before departing having allowed four runs.<\/p>\n
On his way to have X-rays at Dodger Stadium, V\u00e1squez fainted and was taken to the hospital. It is unclear why he lost consciousness, but Stammen said tests revealed no significant health issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust being very cautious with him \u2014 what he went through yesterday out on the field and then off the field also,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cJust give him a little breather. All things pointing positive for Randy today, but just got to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam update<\/p>\n
Adam clarified Friday that the strain in his shoulder was in his subscapularis, the largest muscle in the rotator cuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as \u2026 shoulder-related injuries go, this is as good as I could ask for,\u201d Adam said. \u201cThe capsule is all strong, the labrum is all strong. I should definitely be pitching down the stretch this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam, whose 1.88 ERA since joining the Padres at the trade deadline in 2024 is lowest in the major leagues among qualifying relievers, has primarily worked the seventh and eighth inning this season. He had allowed five runs in 7\u2153 innings over his eight outings before going on the IL. But he said he did not feel poorly until he was playing catch the day after he worked 1\u2153 innings on Monday in Chicago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate to be missing time, especially at this point in the season,\u201d he said. \u201cYou want to be out there supporting your teammates. Especially in pretty crucial games in the middle of the long stretch with a lot of games, you want to be there. That\u2019s what they pay us for in the bullpen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adam\u2019s goal is to be back in games by \u201cearly to mid-August,\u201d though he acknowledged that was an \u201caggressive\u201d timeline.<\/p>\n
Stammen indicated it was not unrealistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time a pitcher goes down with a shoulder elbow injury, you\u2019re hoping it\u2019s not season-ending,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cAnd for that, we got good news that it wasn\u2019t season-ending, that he\u2019ll just need some time off and rest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 The losses are piling up on and off the field. The Padres, who entered Friday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127],"class_list":["post-385722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}