Injured Dodgers ace 'unlikely' to return before season's end

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Injured Dodgers ace 'highly unlikely' to return before season's end

Originally posted on Larry Brown Sports | By Grey Papke | Last updated Sep 14, 2024 5:51 PM ET

The Los Angeles Dodgers suffered a big blow on Saturday with bad news about star pitcher Tyler Glasnow.

Glasnow was diagnosed with an elbow sprain and will not return this season, manager Dave Roberts told reporters Saturday. As recently as this week, the team had hoped to get him back on the mound before the end of the regular season.

Tyler Glasnow has a sprained elbow. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said it’s “highly unlikely” he pitches this season.

Huge, huge blow.

— Alden González (@Alden_Gonzalez) September 14, 2024

Glasnow had been out since August with elbow issues, but had been seemingly making progress. A scheduled simulated game was scrapped Friday after he complained of additional soreness, however, with further tests revealing this diagnosis.

The Dodgers had certainly been relying on Glasnow to get healthy for the playoffs. He had a 3.49 ERA in 22 starts this season with 168 strikeouts in 134 innings. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the Dodgers' top healthy option at this point. As exciting as the slight possibility of seeing Shohei Ohtani pitch in October is, there are real problems the Dodgers need to figure out first, such as how they’ll get outs early in games.

This article first appeared on Larry Brown Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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