{"id":819461,"date":"2026-08-20T03:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T03:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T03:28:21","slug":"mri-reveals-best-case-scenario-for-dodgers-closer-edwin-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819461\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI reveals &#8216;best-case scenario&#8217; for Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The imaging <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers<\/a> closer <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazed04.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> underwent in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning revealed a \u201cbest-case scenario,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said before the series finale against the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no findings, so that was good,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cMRI was clean. It doesn\u2019t change the fact that he had this sensation in his neck. But I think to keep working on it, give it some rest as far as throwing the baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-08-18\/dodgers-closer-edwin-diaz-returns-injured-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially went on the IL<\/a> for \u201cneck inflammation,\u201d but early theories on the injury, before he went to a specialist on Wednesday, suggested the issue could be related to the area around the trapezius, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said Wednesday that the results suggested the injury was more muscular, rather than nerve related.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019d been feeling the tightness in his neck,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut I think where it went to the other night, he hadn\u2019t felt that sensation. So that\u2019s what really checked him up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he didn\u2019t know exactly how long D\u00edaz would be shut down from throwing, but he estimated that it probably would be only a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>The bullpen shuffle continued Wednesday, when the Dodgers activated right-hander Brock Stewart (right shoulder discomfort) from the 15-day IL. In a corresponding move, they designated right-hander Jonathan Hern\u00e1ndez for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The imaging Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz underwent in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning revealed a \u201cbest-case scenario,\u201d manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[347514,347513,10094,10156,38383,4281,363,28730,79766,11901,347515,36408,310757,18329,99,347516,14978],"class_list":["post-819461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-best-case-scenario","tag-dodgers-close-edwin-diaz","tag-il","tag-injury","tag-knowledge","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mlb","tag-mri","tag-neck","tag-person","tag-right-hander-brock-stewart","tag-roberts","tag-sensation","tag-situation","tag-sports","tag-trapezius","tag-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}