Brock Stewart begins rehab assignment with Ontario

May 8, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Brock Stewart (41) pitches during the eighth inning against the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Brock Stewart started a minor league rehab assign

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Brock Stewart started a minor league rehab assignment on Friday night in the California League. The Dodgers right-hander struck out a pair in one inning of work for Ontario in Lake Elsinore. He allowed a run on a pair of doubles, though the latter was a bloop shot to shallow left field. Stewart threw 18 pitches, and induced three swinging strikes.

Stewart missed the first 36 games this season after recovering from last September’s shoulder surgery. He pitched in his first two games back on the active

roster before suffering a bone spur in his left foot on May 8. Stewart last Saturday at Dodger Stadium faced hitters, and the plan then was for him to throw to hitters once more before going out on a rehab assignment.

“It’s not an arm thing, it’s a foot thing,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said on June 6. “We’ve just got to make sure he can recover from the foot thing, covering first base, PFPs, because that’s what set him back last time.”

Player of the day

Jack Suwinski homered twice for Oklahoma City, part of a three-hit game in which the outfielder drove in four runs.

Suwinski has four home runs in four games so far in this interleague series, and during his six-game hitting streak has four three-hit games, hitting a robust .625/.643/1.292 during the streak.

Triple-A Oklahoma City

The Dodgers weren’t the only team allowing a big inning to a White Sox squad on Friday. Oklahoma City gave up innings of five and four runs in a road loss to the Charlotte Knights (White Sox).

Taylor Young hit a two-run shot in the fifth inning that tied the score, his first Triple-A home run after getting promoted this week.

Charlotte took the lead for good with a five-run seventh inning off Ronan Kopp and Nick Frasso, which each allowing a home run during the frame.

Earlier in the game, a rehabbing Tommy Edman made this nice diving catch in center field as he gets closer to likely activation next week.

Double-A Tulsa

The Drillers were walloped by double digits by the Wichita Wind Surge (Twins).

Mike Sirota walked in the sixth inning, extending his on-base streak to 51 games. Josue De Paula singled twice in the loss, accounting for 40 percent of Tulsa’s hits.

High-A Great Lakes

The Loons split a doubleheader with the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Brewers), both games decided by a 5-3 score.

Christian Zazueta struck out five in 3 2/3 innings in the winning nightcap, allowing one run.

Wisconsin climbed Jac(k)ob’s ladder in the first game, scoring two runs off starter Jakob Wright in the fourth inning and two more off Jacob Frost in the fifth, during a 3-1 Loons lead into a Great Lakes loss.

Right fielder Samuel Muñoz had a two-run single and walk in the first game. Cameron Decker hit a two-run home run in the second game.

Matt Lanzendorfer walked a pair to but the tying runs on base in the ninth inning of the nightcap, but struck out his final two batters to finish off the save.

Class-A Ontario

Once down 5-0, the Tower Buzzers rallied to beat the Lake Elsinore Storm (Padres).

Mairo Martinus tripled and doubled, and drove in the go-ahead run in the ninth with a groundout.

Easton Shelton hit a two-run home run, his team-leading 19th.

On the aforementioned bloop double in the fourth inning, left fielder AJ Soldra and shortstop Joendry Vargas collided in the outfield, and both were down for several minutes. Multiple trainers from both teams tended to the players, and Soldra had to be carted off the field. Vargas remained in the game.

Transactions

Triple-A: With Chuckie Robinson called up to the Dodgers, Oklahoma City got fellow spring non-roster invitee Griffin Lockwood-Powell to help share catching duties after two and a half seasons in Tulsa.

Double-A: Dodgers signed catcher Hayden Gilliland three days after he was released by the Toronto Blue Jays, and assigned him to Tulsa. The 24-year-old hit .228/.374/.380 with three home runs and five doubles in 28 games for High-A Vancouver this eason.