Dodgers have bad injury news with Tyler Glasnow, Brusdar Graterol: ‘Domino effect’

SAN DIEGO –– Another day, another round of discouraging pitching injury news for the Dodgers. This time, manager Dave Roberts said Monday that both Tyler Glasnow and Brusdar Graterol had “flare-ups” in their backs recently. Dodgers ace Tyler Glasnow recently suffered a setback in his recovery from low back spasms.

Getty Images For Glasnow, it likely means he will miss at least several more weeks. For Graterol, the prognosis might be much more grim. Glasnow is almost two weeks removed from a back spasm episode that landed him on the injured list, and was initially expected to incur only a minimum 15-day absence.

Instead, Roberts said Glasnow’s back flared up on him again recently. General manager Brandon Gomes added that he is “gonna take a few days off from throwing, completely kind of reset and re-evaluate. ” Gomes noted that the team still has “no concern long-term” with Glasnow’s recovery, and framed his situation as simply being “a little slower on the front end than we expected.

” Still, with Glasnow set to remain out for the foreseeable future, the Dodgers are planning to insert newly-acquired veteran left-hander Eric Lauer into their rotation at some point next week; ensuring they will maintain a six-man group to balance workloads for the rest of their starters. “Part of the thinking is to not create this domino effect of chasing our tails,” Gomes said. “(We’re) trying to maintain a similar schedule as we’ve had, and when we can get guys extra days’ rest, do it.