The Dodgers announced that they’ve positioned Freddie Freeman on the 10-day injured record with a proper ankle sprain. The position is retroactive to March 31, so Freeman shall be eligible to return on April 10.
Freeman has not performed since Saturday. Supervisor Dave Roberts advised reporters that the star first baseman tweaked his ankle throughout a bathe “mishap,” by way of Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. Freeman performed by an ankle sprain down the stretch and all through final yr’s playoff run. He had a monster World Collection regardless of the harm however however required surgical procedure in early December. That process didn’t forestall him from beginning the season, however the latest bathe slip would require not less than one other week of relaxation.
IL placements may be backdated by as much as three days. That the Dodgers elected to not place Freeman on the IL immediately suggests they didn’t take into account this a big harm. It was sufficient to ship him for a particularly uncommon IL stint, although. Freeman final went on the shelf in 2020 for a optimistic virus check. His most up-to-date non-illness IL keep got here again in 2017, when a fracture in his left wrist knocked him out for greater than two months.
Enrique Hernández drew into the lineup at first base for the Dodgers’ sequence in opposition to the Braves. Whereas he went a mixed 1-for-11, the Dodgers swept Atlanta to maneuver to 8-0. The 4 prime groups within the NL West have all gotten out to wonderful begins — the 7-0 Padres be a part of the Dodgers as the one remaining undefeated golf equipment — however the Dodgers clearly have loads of expertise to climate what appears prone to be a short-term absence.
The Dodgers didn’t announce a corresponding roster transfer. They’re off Thursday, so there wasn’t any urgency to fill the spot, however ready till Friday to put Freeman on the IL would have pushed again his retroactive date by a day. They’ll recall one other hitter main as much as their weekend sequence in Philadelphia.
