He Dodgers Looks like they have another pitching injury on their hands.
In the second inning of Friday’s game Against the Arizona Diamondbacksveteran lefty Clayton Kershaw He left in the second inning because of what the team later said was soreness in his left big toe.
Further information on the severity of the problem was not immediately available.
Kershaw, 36, had struggled early in Friday’s game, allowing two runs in the first before giving up a solo homer to Corbin Carroll on his final pitch in the second inning.
That final pitch was a 67.4 mph curveball, which registered as one of the slowest pitches of Kershaw’s career.
Before Carroll finished rounding the bases, manager Dave Roberts and head athletic trainer Thomas Albert came out to the mound to remove Kershaw from the game.
Relief pitcher Joe Kelly had already begun warming up in the bullpen by the start of the inning, suggesting Kershaw may have alerted team officials to the problem after the first.
Kershaw, a 17-year veteran, three-time Cy Young Award winner and future Hall of Famer, was making just his seventh start of the season on Friday, having missed the first 3 1/2 months of the campaign recovering from offseason shoulder surgery.
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He joins a long list of injured Dodgers pitchers, including aces Tyler Glasnow (elbow) and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (shoulder).
Yamamoto and Glasnow played catch before Friday’s game.
For Yamamoto, it was a standard session as he prepares for his second minor league rehab outing next week. He could recover from his rotator cuff injury as soon as the team’s next homestand begins.
For Glasnow, the throwing session represented a restart of a throwing program that had been delayed because of lingering discomfort caused by his elbow tendinitis injury. He is scheduled to play ball again on Saturday as he attempts to return before the end of the season.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
