Dodgers convey again Max Muncy, ship Tommy Edman to IL

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers activated third baseman Max Muncy off the injured checklist Monday and positioned utility man Tommy Edman on the IL due to a proper ankle damage.

Edman suffered what the Dodgers known as a sprain whereas rounding first base within the fifth inning of Sunday’s street sport in opposition to the Tampa Bay Rays. Edman, 30, missed the primary two weeks of Might due to a proper ankle damage and had been struggling since he got here again, slashing .214/.273/.323 over a 56-game stretch.

Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts did not present a timeline for Edman’s return however stated he would “be again sooner or later.” The Dodgers do not wish to convey him again till he’s totally healed this time.

“The place we’re at on the calendar,” Roberts stated, “we have got to verify we do all the pieces on the entrance finish that we do not have a setback.”

Muncy returned to his customary No. 5 spot for the opener of a three-game dwelling collection in opposition to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Somewhat greater than a month in the past, he did not suppose he’d return to the sector this yr.

Within the sixth inning on July 2, with Clayton Kershaw a strikeout away from 3,000, Chicago White Sox outfielder Michael A. Taylor slid headfirst into Muncy’s left knee. Muncy stated his preliminary thought was, “I’ve obtained to get off this subject so Kersh can preserve pitching.” As he went down the tunnel, Muncy was satisfied his season was completed.

With Muncy on the coach’s desk, the Dodgers’ medical personnel examined his left leg. He was informed the knee felt robust, that the swelling wasn’t practically as unhealthy as anticipated. An MRI the next morning revealed no structural injury.

“As I used to be laying there on the bottom that night time, I believed for positive, ‘That is it,'” Muncy stated. “At the moment, clearly, you’ve gotten 1,000,000 issues that begin going via your thoughts. Clearly, they’re all of the worst. It is arduous to remain constructive in a second like that. However simply making an attempt to be grateful and blessed to have the ability to get again on the baseball subject this yr. I’ll attempt to get pleasure from each second of it figuring out how shut it was to not being there for me.”