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.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.”The news on Graterol was significantly more worrying, following his move to the 60-day IL on Sunday.After missing all of last year recovering from shoulder surgery, then starting this year on the injured list after struggling to regain his typical velocity during spring training, Graterol was pulled off his minor-league rehab assignment this week with what could be a serious lower back injury.While the team is still consulting with doctors to determine Graterol’s next steps, Gomes acknowledged that surgery could be on the table for the hard-throwing reliever. “He’s w...