{"id":1011930,"date":"2026-08-20T02:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011930\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:11:38","slug":"mri-reveals-best-case-scenario-for-dodgers-closer-edwin-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1011930\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI reveals &#8216;best-case scenario&#8217; for Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The imaging <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dodgers<\/a> closer <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazed04.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> underwent in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning revealed a \u201cbest-case scenario,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said before the series finale against the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no findings, so that was good,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cMRI was clean. It doesn\u2019t change the fact that he had this sensation in his neck. But I think to keep working on it, give it some rest as far as throwing the baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/dodgers\/story\/2026-08-18\/dodgers-closer-edwin-diaz-returns-injured-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">officially went on the IL<\/a> for \u201cneck inflammation,\u201d but early theories on the injury, before he went to a specialist on Wednesday, suggested the issue could be related to the area around the trapezius, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said Wednesday that the results suggested the injury was more muscular, rather than nerve related.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019d been feeling the tightness in his neck,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut I think where it went to the other night, he hadn\u2019t felt that sensation. So that\u2019s what really checked him up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he didn\u2019t know exactly how long D\u00edaz would be shut down from throwing, but he estimated that it probably would be only a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>The bullpen shuffle continued Wednesday, when the Dodgers activated right-hander Brock Stewart (right shoulder discomfort) from the 15-day IL. In a corresponding move, they designated right-hander Jonathan Hern\u00e1ndez for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The imaging Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz underwent in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning revealed a \u201cbest-case scenario,\u201d manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1011931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[404961,404960,5386,19176,28739,2444,1266,23266,135507,24659,404962,26804,360280,23427,62,404963,67,132,68,14735],"class_list":["post-1011930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-best-case-scenario","tag-dodgers-close-edwin-diaz","tag-il","tag-injury","tag-knowledge","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mlb","tag-mri","tag-neck","tag-person","tag-right-hander-brock-stewart","tag-roberts","tag-sensation","tag-situation","tag-sports","tag-trapezius","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wednesday-morning"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117125413939775886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}