Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman is expected to play through the injury as the team gets reinforcements in Max Muncy and Tommy Edman.
For much of the summer, putting together a daily lineup was a tiresome exercise for Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, toiling to piece together a patchwork roster plagued by injuries. On Monday afternoon, however, the Dodgers skipper almost smiled when asked about that night’s batting order. “On the position player side,” he said, “this, since opening day, is as healthy as we’ve been.
The problem, Muncy explained Monday, was that in addition to his oblique strain, doctors discovered that he had “a bottom rib that was out of place that was causing a lot of damage.” “We don’t know,” Muncy said when asked how the rib initially got hurt. “My best guess is maybe the week leading up to when I got hurt, I dove for a ball or something and landed on it wrong, and we just didn’t know it at the time. The day that I got hurt, I already had some bruising down there.
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