Max Muncy stayed home on Friday and Saturday while sick, but the plan is to come to Dodger Stadium Sunday for batting practice. He will likely start a minor league rehab assignment next week and could be activated as early as next weekend in Baltimore if all goes well. Muncy had a memorable quote this week about missing time with an oblique injury for two years in a row, from Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register
:“For me personally, you dive into ‘Why does this keep happening?’ and you realize
that sometimes your anatomy just sucks,” he said. “I have a very short torso so everything is compressed so my bottom rib basically sits on my hip bone. And then my swing is a compressed swing. You’re just creating a lot of stress in one particular area. Genetically, there’s not a lot you can do about that.”
There isn’t a set timetable for reliever Brock Stewart other than the Dodgers expect him back at some point in September. The right-hander received a second injection in his right shoulder recently, Dave Roberts said, and has since resumed throwing.
Here’s more Stewart, again per Plunkett: “Already it’s calmed down,” Stewart said shortly after receiving the injections. “The (range of) motion is good. So yeah, I’m optimistic. … One day at a time.”
Sam Horn, a pitcher drafted in the 17th round and signed by the Dodgers, is also a quarterback at the University of Missouri, but injured his leg on a six-yard run on Thursday night. Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz on Friday said Horn is going to miss “an extended period of time,” per the Columbia Daily Tribune.
Old friend Walker Buehler was released by the Red Sox on Friday after a 5.45 ERA and 5.69 xERA in 23 games, including 22 starts and a career-worst 5.7-percent strikeout-minus-walk rate. “I know it didn’t go his way, or our way. He expected more, and we expected more,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said, per Associated Press. “I still think he has stuff in the tank.”
