August 7th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It is an image that will remain etched in the hearts and minds of Dodger fans for a very log time.
It is the image of 25-year-old Dodgers right-hander Brusdar Graterol being helped off the field by teammate Kiké Hernández and Dodgers head trainer Thomas Albert with tears in his eyes after suffering an injury to his right hamstring on his eighth pitch; this after having been reactivated from the Injured List only hours earlier, having spent entire 2024 season recovering and rehabbing from a serious shoulder injury .
“Yeah, it’s heartbreaking,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts echoed, following his team’s 6-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 47,150 on Tuesday night. “Brusdar, he’s been so good for us. He’s done a lot of good things. He’s pitched in a lot of big ballgames for us, postseason games, and he had a tough road back. Spent a lot of time in Arizona, and being on rehab, and then to come back and, you know, second or third… third hitter he faced to blow out (his hamstring). It was a pretty good blow-out. From what I understand, it was a Grade-3 hamstring, and so, that’s a long road back.
“I feel terrible for him and for his teammates, and I just don’t know, you know, the outlook for this year, certainly, but it was a tough one,” Roberts added.
The Dodger skipper said that 27-year-old right-hander Michael Grove will be recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City to replace Graterol’s spot on the Dodgers roster. Grove appeared in 28 games for the Dodgers (two starts) this season before suffering an intercostal strain in mid-June, for which he began a rehab assignment at OKC on July 21. The Wheeling, WV native was the Dodgers second-round draft pick in 2018 out of West Virginia University.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to “Bazooka” (as Graterol is called by his teammates and fans) for a complete and speedy recovery
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Huge blow.
now need treinin to return for the postseason.
Time to get E Phillips back in the closer role and get ready for the postseason.
right now
lefties Banda and Vesia solid.
righties:
E Phillips
Hudson
Kopech
Brasser
Kelly
Grove long man
thats 8.
Plus Yamamato Glasnow Flaherty Kershaw (stone or Buehler.
And Landon Knack, River Ryan, Wrobleski, and Bobby Miller behind them.
Ohtani, Gonsolin and May next year, too.
That’s 13 starters going into 2025 with 3 contracts ending: Flaherty, Kershaw and Buehler.
Then there may be Jackson Ferris, Nick Frasso.
Better to spend money on Soto than on pitching in the offseason.
All of these injuries, is there something the Dodgers trainers are missing when getting the players fit to play? Broken bones (Betts) and surgeries (Kershaw) obviously not training issues, but hamstrings, arms, shoulders, oblique, et al????
J
its all over baseball.
a little bit of a contrarian observation.
are we better off with a close race down to the last week and win division by 3 games? keeping us sharp down to the wire vs winning 105 and being stale in the playoffs.??? WSS