Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations, said there is no set timeline for Clayton Kershaw’s return given the unconventional injury he is dealing with.
The Los Angeles Dodgers veteran left-hander left the mound on Aug. 30 after dealing with a bone spur on his left big toe.
“He’s still trying to figure out the best way to provide relief [for his toe], and figuring that out is challenging,” Friedman told Jack Harris of The Los Angeles Times. “There’s not a playbook for that … it’s just not a common [injury].”
The veteran southpaw alerted manager Dave Roberts in the first inning of the rivalry matchup against the Diamondbacks about the pain he felt in his push-off foot. Once he gave up a solo homer to Corbin Carroll, Kershaw was pulled from the game.
“It’s a bone spur. It’s obviously not good. There’s swelling. There’s pain. He’s doing everything he can to kind of get through,” Roberts said postgame. “Some starts it feels fine and it’s not impeding. Today certainly it was. He just — he had nothing. No legs today obviously. Then you start worrying about how it could affect his arm. There was just no other alternative but to take him out of that second inning after the [Corbin] Caroll at-bat. We’re going to see how he comes in tomorrow. We got somebody coming, just potentially if it is an IL situation.”
This isn’t the first stint on the injured list for Kershaw this year. He only returned in late June from a shoulder injury until he was sidelined yet again at the end of August.
Kershaw is just one of the many pitchers in the Dodgers rotation that is now on the injured list. The latest to fall was Gavin Stone who was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday due to shoulder inflammation.
