The Los Angeles Dodgers supplied an unlucky replace concerning Tommy Edman’s ankle damage.
The utility star and reigning NLCS MVP aggravated his ankle damage final week whereas taking part in in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks, in line with president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman.
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“He sort of aggravated it final week in Arizona taking part in the outfield,” mentioned Friedman. “He’ll do no matter. However I feel the most effective likelihood for us to maintain him rising robust proper now could be restrict the quantity of motion within the outfield. And so at the very least for proper now that’s our thought and hopefully we get some days and maintain going and it progressively will get higher and higher and sort of opens that up. However proper now we’re erring on the aspect of warning.”
Edman continues to be going to be out there for the Wild Card sequence, however has been coping with a nagging ankle damage for a short time now and appears prone to be taking part in at second base for the foreseeable future.
He was first positioned on the injured listing for ankle irritation initially of Might which saved him out for round three weeks, together with a while earlier than touchdown on the IL. He then sprained his ankle in the direction of the beginning of August which saved him sidelined for a little bit over a month.
Within the 67 video games he has performed since his activation in Might, Edman is hitting simply .213 with a .579 OPS. Edman’s 30 video games he performed earlier than the preliminary ankle issues noticed him hit .252 with 24 RBIs and eight of his 13 complete dwelling runs this season.
Edman, nonetheless, has a knack for turning issues up in October.
After hitting .237 in 37 video games with the Dodgers final season, Edman had a postseason slashline of .328/.354/.508 with an .862 OPS on the highway to the Dodgers’ eighth World Sequence victory.
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