DODGERS NOTEBOOK: ALVAREZ INJURY OPENS DOOR FOR NOMO RETURN.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of - Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo Hideo Nomo (born Aug. 31, 1968 , Osaka, Japan) Japanese baseball pitcher whose success with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 created new opportunities for Asian players in Major League Baseball. , who has been sidelined since July 1 with rotator cuff rotator cuff n. A set of muscles and tendons that secures the arm to the shoulder joint and permits rotation of the arm. Also called musculotendinous cuff. inflammation and has completed his minor league rehabilitation assignment, is expected to rejoin the starting rotation sometime next week in place of the injured Wilson Alvarez Alvarez was knocked out in the second inning of Friday's 9-2 loss to the New York Mets
``The X-rays on (Alvarez's elbow) were negative, but it's very unlikely he'll make his next start,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``It got him pretty good. Obviously, Hideo Nomo will step into that spot.'' Tracy wouldn't pinpoint which game Nomo will start. With an off-day Monday, he could move the rest of the rotation up one day and put Nomo at the back. But the most sound decision probably would be to have Nomo start Thursday at Arizona, which would have been Alvarez's next start. Nomo hasn't appeared in a major league game since June 30 and was maddeningly inconsistent before he went down. So if starting him again is at least something of a venture into the unknown, that venture is probably better taken against the bottom-feeding Diamondbacks than the Cardinals, who have the league's best record. --Roster move: The Dodgers announced after the game that they will purchase the contract of left-handed reliever Scott Stewart from Triple-A Las Vegas to bolster a bullpen depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d by recent a spate of short starts from the rotation. To make room for Stewart on the 25-man roster, right-handed reliever Masao Kida was optioned to Las Vegas. To make room for him on the 40-man, reliever Paul Shuey, who is out for the rest of the year, was moved from the 15- to the 60-day disabled list. ``We just feel like we need another lefty in the bullpen to give us what (Mike) Venafro did for a little while,'' general manager Paul DePodesta said. ``(Stewart) can be a left-on-left guy, but he's more of an inning or two guy.'' Venafro can't return until Sept. 5 because he was optioned to Las Vegas on Tuesday and has to stay at least 10 days. --Fall League: The Dodgers will send pitchers Tom Farmer, Ryan Ketchner, Russell Martin and Steve Schmoll, infielder James Loney and outfielder Jason Repko to the Arizona Fall League The Arizona Fall League is a minor league baseball league which operates during the fall in Arizona, United States at five spring training complexes. Structure Each August, Major League Baseball clubs hold a position draft to determine the players who will go to Arizona. , assistant general manager Kim Ng said Friday. They will play for the Scottsdale Scorpions. The AFL AFL: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. arguably is the most prestigious of the fall instructional leagues. Generally, teams consider only their top minor-league prospects for the assignment. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: DODGERS at NEW YORK METS - Tony Jackson |
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