{"id":692330,"date":"2026-05-07T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:15:34","slug":"dodgers-notes-glasnow-snell-hernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/692330\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Notes: Glasnow, Snell, Hern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers are sending\u00a0Tyler Glasnow<\/a> for a precautionary MRI after his early exit on Wednesday afternoon, manager Dave Roberts tells reporters (including Maddie Lee of The Los Angeles Times<\/a>). The big righty felt a back spasm while warming up in the second inning of today\u2019s start in Houston. The Dodgers got him out of the game at that point.<\/p>\n

Roberts said the team doesn\u2019t believe Glasnow will need a stint on the injured list. The pitcher said it\u2019s a recurring issue which he battles a couple times per season. Glasnow had a minimal IL stint in 2024 due to lower back tightness and was scratched from a start last September with the same issue.<\/p>\n

Glasnow allowed a leadoff home run to\u00a0Brice Matthews<\/a> before rebounding with strikeouts of\u00a0Yordan Alvarez<\/a> and\u00a0Isaac Paredes<\/a>. He became the 45th active pitcher to reach 1000 career punchouts in the process. Glasnow has fanned just under a third of opponents en route to a 2.72 earned run average over his first seven starts.<\/p>\n

The early exit forced the Dodgers to lean heavily on their bullpen.\u00a0Jack Dreyer<\/a>,\u00a0Edgardo Henriquez<\/a>,\u00a0Kyle Hurt<\/a>,\u00a0Blake Treinen<\/a>,\u00a0Tanner Scott<\/a> and the just activated\u00a0Brock Stewart<\/a> all pitched in what turned out to be a blowout 12-2 win. Los Angeles is off tomorrow and none of their relievers topped 27 pitches, so they may not need to make any changes to the staff heading into a weekend series against the NL-leading Braves.<\/p>\n

L.A. entered play on Wednesday as one of the two teams (along with the Yankees) whose rotation had a sub-3.00 earned run average. Shohei Ohtani<\/a> was the National League\u2019s Pitcher of the Month for April.\u00a0Justin Wrobleski<\/a> is second in MLB behind Ohtani in ERA. Glasnow and\u00a0Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> have each pitched very well.\u00a0Roki Sasaki<\/a> and\u00a0Emmet Sheehan<\/a> are the two of L.A.\u2019s season-opening starters who have struggled.<\/p>\n

That sextet has accounted for all of the Dodgers\u2019 starts so far. That\u2019ll likely change within the next 10 days. Blake Snell<\/a>, out all season after offseason shoulder fatigue, is set for his final rehab appearance on Saturday with Low-A Ontario (via the MLB.com injury tracker<\/a>). He\u2019s expected to rejoin the MLB rotation after that, so he should make his season debut in the middle of next week.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have firmly maintained they view Sasaki as a starter even as the former NPB star struggled with walks and home runs throughout Spring Training and the early part of the regular season. They might be more willing to move Sheehan to the bullpen, though he has a much better strikeout and walk profile than Sasaki does. If Glasnow does require an IL stint, that\u2019d take the decision out of the club\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

In other injury news, utilityman\u00a0Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City last night. Hern\u00e1ndez began the season on the 60-day injured list after last fall\u2019s elbow surgery. That officially rules him out until at least May 24. Position players can spend up to 20 days on a rehab assignment, so the Dodgers clearly anticipate Hern\u00e1ndez being ready to go when he\u2019s first eligible.<\/p>\n

Barring a setback, he\u2019ll return to the MLB roster on either May 24 or 25. The Dodgers have used Alex Freeland<\/a> and\u00a0Hyeseong Kim<\/a> as their middle infield tandem with\u00a0Mookie Betts<\/a> and\u00a0Tommy Edman<\/a> both on the injured list.\u00a0Santiago Espinal<\/a> and fourth outfielder Alex Call<\/a> occupy the final two spots on the bench. Call has a couple minor league options remaining but has been a productive short side platoon bat for the past couple seasons. Espinal, who broke camp after an offseason minor league deal, has more than five years of MLB service and can refuse an assignment to the minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers are sending\u00a0Tyler Glasnow for a precautionary MRI after his early exit on Wednesday afternoon, manager Dave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,114,39,1152,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4,786],"class_list":["post-692330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-dodgers","tag-enrique-hernandez","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb","tag-tyler-glasnow"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116531122883338173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}