In a shock transfer, the Los Angeles Dodgers positioned right-hander Evan Phillips on the injured listing on Wedneday with proper forearm discomfort. Phillips started the season on the IL and returns after making simply seven appearances for the Dodgers in 2025.
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The reliever spoke in regards to the harm and his general feelings heading again to the IL.
“I assumed it was simply reacclimating to the workload,” Phillips mentioned, by way of The Orange County Register’s Invoice Plunkett. “I at all times felt good once I pitched, in order that’s form of the place my disappointment is available in. I do really feel like I can nonetheless contribute, however I feel what it comes all the way down to is we don’t need to fiddle with one thing in early Could.”
Phillips mentioned the soreness he’s experiencing has “form of bounced round just a little bit.” The harm has affected him “in my decrease arm, or bicep, tricep, forearm.” Whereas he was being handled for the soreness, the restoration has not gone nicely.
The Dodgers presently have a complete of 13 pitchers on the IL, a sign the crew’s harm woes from final season have solely continued.
“Might he have pitched immediately? Completely,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned Wednesday. “Nobody is aware of how he would really feel responding going ahead. So I feel for us, it simply made probably the most sense to IL him. Our expectation is on that sixteenth day, he’ll be again lively. It’s simply extra of a precaution.”
Phillips had not allowed a run this season, throwing six strikeouts whereas permitting two walks over 5.2 innings. The appropriate-hander was top-of-the-line relievers for the Dodgers final season, ending the 12 months with a 3.62 ERA, 63 strikeouts, and 17 walks over 54.2 innings pitched.
The Dodgers’ bullpen presently leads the league in innings, and the accidents to the pitching employees is a big issue as to why.
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