Brock Stewart struggles in L.A. return as Dodgers lose to Cardinals

Brock Stewart collapsed in front of a mainly empty locker in the middle of the Dodgers clubhouse on Monday afternoon, a stand that belonged to the Dustin May launcher, while the clubhouse attendants rushed with boxes of new size 13 crampons.

A week ago, Stewart launched for the Minnesota Twins, who wear red crampons. The Dodgers do not do so, so Stewart needed a makeover.

“I also got blue gloves,” he said.

Dressing properly is not the only thing that players have to worry when they change their teams in the middle of the season. Stewart had a house and a family in Minnesota to make his luggage and move when he learned Thursday that he had been exchanged from a team with a losing record in a second title of the World Series.

Late Monday evening, Stewart found himself in the middle of this pennant race when he took the mound in the ninth round of a matching match. It did not end well, Stewart (2-2) abandoned a race on three strokes while only obtaining two withdrawals in a 3-2 defeat against the cardinals of St. Louis.

It was a gross return for the right -hander, which was drafted by the Dodgers in 2014 but renounced five years later after launching 36 times during parts of four seasons. After having recovered during a six -year stay in which Stewart was brought back to Los Angeles to stabilize an enclosure nicknamed and impatient of injuries that had trouble.

During his first appearance at the Dodger Stadium in original uniform since 2019, he added to these difficulties, abandoning the two shots to the first two strikers he faced, then depriving 2-0 to pinch Yohel Pozo, who broke out a simple on the inner field to drive in the Go-Ahead race.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts looks at the canoe during a 3-2 defeat against the cardinals on Monday.

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For manager Dave Roberts, a bad outing will not change the role of Stewart.

“It’s baseball,” he said.

“He’s a high -level guy,” added Roberts. “It was certainly necessary for our ball club and I will use it as such.”

Stewart was certainly not the only lifter to have had trouble, the two arenas that waste excellent efforts from Tyler Glasnow and Sonny Gray.

Glasnow gave the Dodgers (65-48) Seven strong rounds for the second time in three starts, conceding one point on three strokes – none after the second round – while withdrawing seven. Gray was even better in his seven heats, just abandoning a solo circuit from the fourth round to Freddie Freeman and a second -handed step to Max Muncy before leaving with the scoring 1-1.

Anthony Banda was the first man from a Dodger enclosure that launched more sleeves than any other in baseball. Three strikers later, the cardinals (57-57) went from the front on the circuit of Iván Herrera in the center.

The dodgers leaving the Tyler Glasnow launcher delivers during a 3-2 defeat to the Cardinals of St. Louis on Monday evening.

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The lift of the cardinals Riley O’Brien handed over the race at the bottom of the Channel on a double to Teoscar Hernández.

So, with the score again, Roberts called Stewart, who had a week of whirlwind. Five days ago, he was on his way to Cleveland with the twins when he received a call to fly in Tampa, Florida, to join the Dodgers instead. This left his wife Christina to pack the couple’s house, their sons, Jett, 3 years and cal, 16 months, and their puppy by train and move to Los Angeles.

“My wife is just wearing it,” he said. “Maybe that’s what people don’t understand.”

Roberts, who played in five cities in his career, said that the challenge of changing the teams can go beyond the search for the right color glove and crampons. But the transition was easier for Stewart because it intervened with the Dodgers.

“He knows some of the players, most of the coach staff, the city itself, the stadium,” he said. “Things like it are part of his past routine.”

Dodgers’ first goal player, Freddie Freeman, hits a solo house during the fourth round of a 3-2 defeat against the cardinals on Monday.

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Stewart, undoubtedly the biggest acquisition that the Dodgers made on the deadline for trade, had been in Los Angeles less than a day when he arrived on Monday. He agreed that he did not have much time to acclimatize, although he said that he might need time to find his way in the clubhouse, which underwent a renovation of $ 100 million last winter.

As for his work, he said that the Dodgers had clearly indicated this.

“Andrew [Friedman] And [Brandon] Gomes has just told me not to try to change anything. Just do what you have done and it will be good enough, “he said, referring to the president of the baseball operations team and general manager, respectively.

It was not good enough on Monday. But, said Roberts thereafter, there are still a lot of games to play.

“Brock,” he said, “will get baseball a lot.”

Sasaki began to throw

The right -hander Roki Sasaki is expected to launch the equivalent of three innings to strikers on Friday and if it goes well, it could start an assignment of rehabilitation in the minor league next week. He has not launched for almost three months after taking it with a shoulder.

Edman continues the list of wounded

Utilityman Hyeseong Kim, since July 29 with a shoulder problem, balances a bat and takes vests. Roberts is optimistic Kim can come back soon. But another public service player, Tommy Edman, went to the IL with an ankle injury. With Kim, Edman and Kiké Hernández, another public service player, all with injuries, Roberts did not have the usual versatility he appreciated to align a program.