{"id":827380,"date":"2026-08-27T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:52:09","slug":"dodgers-to-place-roki-sasaki-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827380\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers To Place Roki Sasaki On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers will place\u00a0Roki Sasaki<\/a> on the 15-day injured list, manager Dave Roberts told reporters (relayed by Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic<\/a>). The righty left tonight\u2019s start at Truist Park with a blister on the middle finger of his throwing hand.<\/p>\n

Sasaki had allowed one run over three innings before finding himself in trouble in the fourth. He allowed three of the first four batters to reach, then summoned the training staff. The blister seemingly arose quickly and forced him out of the game. Edgardo Henriquez<\/a> allowed a couple inherited runners to score \u2014 though that was mostly the fault of Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, who overran a fly ball in left field.<\/p>\n

The end result was that Sasaki was charged for four runs across 3 1\/3 innings, though he\u2019d looked reasonably sharp until the injury. The second-year big leaguer was among one of the best stretches of his MLB career. Sasaki entered tonight\u2019s outing with a 2.31 ERA while striking out 24% of opponents in six starts since the All-Star Break. This was the first time he\u2019d allowed four runs in an appearance since July 2.<\/p>\n

Sasaki and\u00a0Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> are the only pitchers who\u2019d held a spot in the L.A. rotation all year. They\u2019re tied for the team lead with 23 starts. Sasaki is third on the club behind Yamamoto and\u00a0Justin Wrobleski<\/a> in innings pitched.<\/p>\n

Roberts confirmed that\u00a0Eric Lauer<\/a> will move right back into the starting staff (via Jack Harris of The California Post<\/a>). The southpaw had held a rotation spot since the Dodgers acquired him from Toronto in May. He just moved to the bullpen Tuesday night with Tyler Glasnow<\/a> returning from injury.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto is tabbed for tomorrow\u2019s series finale against the Braves, where he\u2019ll oppose\u00a0Chris Sale<\/a> in an elite pitching matchup. There\u2019s no less intrigue on Friday, as\u00a0Tarik Skubal<\/a> takes on his old team to open a series at Comerica Park. Blake Snell<\/a> will start Saturday with Glasnow lined up for the weekend finale. The Dodgers could have\u00a0Shohei Ohtani<\/a> open in front of Glasnow, as he\u2019ll soon start building up his workload after a knee issue halted his pitching for two months. Lauer wouldn\u2019t be slated to start until a week from now against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has dropped the first two games of an entertaining series with the Braves. Ha-Seong Kim<\/a> walked off\u00a0Tanner Scott<\/a> on Kim\u2019s first hit since he was activated from the injured list three weeks ago. That pulled Atlanta to within two games of the 80-53 Dodgers as the teams jostle for a first-round bye. L.A. is two games back of the #1 seed Brewers and has lost the season series to both Milwaukee and Atlanta, giving those clubs the tiebreakers.<\/p>\n

Sasaki will be out of action until at least September 11. Returning after a minimal stint would leave just over two weeks before the end of the regular season. A blister isn\u2019t an especially worrisome issue long term but has a variable enough recovery window that it may impact his readiness for the postseason. Sasaki seems likely to end up in the playoff bullpen if each of Yamamoto, Skubal, Snell and Glasnow are healthy. It\u2019s the second straight year in which the Dodgers\u2019 biggest question is whether they\u2019ll have a reliable enough back of the \u2018pen to win another championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers will place\u00a0Roki Sasaki on the 15-day injured list, manager Dave Roberts told reporters (relayed by Fabian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[138809,8972,99],"class_list":["post-827380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eric-lauer","tag-roki-sasaki","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827380","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=827380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}