CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The San Diego Padres activated Jake Cronenworth from the injured list on Monday after the veteran infielder was sidelined by a concussion.<\/p>\n
The Padres also placed right-hander David Morgan on the 15-day IL with left knee inflammation. Right-hander Bradgley Rodriguez was recalled from Double-A San Antonio, and infielder Will Wagner was optioned to Triple-A El Paso.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Cronenworth went 0 for 3 in a 3-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs in the opener of a three-game series. It was his first big league game since May 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat to have (Cronenworth) back,\u201d Padres manager Craig Stammen said before the game. \u201cWe missed him definitely. A guy that\u2019s been a part of our team for a while and someone that\u2019s just Steady Eddie, professional at-bat all the time and then great second baseman.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cronenworth was grazed on his jaw by a 96-mph fastball from Angels left-hander Yusei Kikuchi on April 18. He went 4 for 31 over his next 12 games before going on the IL with delayed symptoms from the concussion.<\/p>\n
He played in three rehab games with Triple-A El Paso, going 3 for 12 with a homer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you got a head injury and then you know you\u2019re not able to see things the way you normally used to be able to see things, especially as a hitter at the plate, there\u2019s probably times where he\u2019s like, am I ever going to be able to be a major league hitter again?\u201d Stammen said. \u201cAnd just time heals a lot of things and luckily the time wasn\u2019t too long, but it was long enough to where he could get back and feels pretty good about where he’s at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old Rodriguez allowed a hit while recording the first two outs in the sixth in the loss to the Cubs. He is 1-2 with a 2.06 ERA in 32 games with San Diego this season. He was sent down on June 19 to help manage his workload during his rookie season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe gave him a week off,\u201d Stammen said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty good, you know, overall in the scheme of things of a long season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The San Diego Padres activated Jake Cronenworth from the injured list on Monday after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,54201,784,872,4,9501,43,91869,9496,39138,15187,137,18,4339,4338,1276,809],"class_list":["post-739211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego-padres","tag-baseball","tag-craig-stammen","tag-david-morgan","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-padres","tag-padres-jake-cronenworth","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sandiego","tag-sandiegopadres","tag-will-wagner","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116837536477618154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739211","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=739211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}