Will Smith missing at least the next week with a hairline fracture in his right hand, putting his playoff availability in question, wasn’t the only Dodgers injury news on Saturday. Brusdar Graterol’s 2025 season is over really before it ever had a chance to begin.
Graterol had surgery last November to repair a torn labum in his right shoulder, which was expected to keep him out until at least after the All-Star break. The right-hander has spent the bulk of his season at the Dodgers complex at Camelback Ranch in Arizona, but never progressed to even a minor league rehab assignment.
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“It’s been hard to kind of ramp up the volume that he would need to get back,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Saturday, per Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times. “My expectation is he will not be back this year.”
Graterol also missed four months with shoulder inflammation last season and was sidelined another month-plus with a hamstring strain. He’s pitched a total of seven games since the start of the 2024 season. Graterol has five years, 167 days of major league service time and is eligible for salary arbitration one last time this offseason before free agency.
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Shohei Ohtani scored two runs on Saturday, bringing his total to 141 runs scored on the season, two shy of the modern Dodgers record set by Babe Herman and seven runs shy of the franchise record held by Hub Collins from way back in 1890. Ohtani has just the 14th major league season since integration with 140 runs scored.
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Ben Rortvedt laid down a bunt in the seventh inning for his third sacrifice of the season, which leads the Dodgers this season. He joined the team on September 4. Rortvedt’s three sacrifice bunts are the most by any Dodger since 2021, when pitchers were still hitting. The previous Dodgers position player with at least this many sacrifices was Kiké Hernández in 2018, with four.
Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus ranked various baseball backsplashes, the view of the park seen on television from the center field camera. He ranked the best five and worst five, and Dodger Stadium wasn’t mentioned, putting it in the large middle.