The San Diego Padres avoided a four-game expanse against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 5-3 triumph connected Thursday night.
But things got disfigured successful the ninth. Fernando Tatis Jr. was deed by a pitch, causing some benches to wide and some managers to get ejected. Then, Shohei Ohtani was deed by a pitch, which led Padres reliever Robert Suarez to beryllium thrown retired earlier the crippled came to an extremity with the bases loaded.
Tatis near the crippled aft being deed by the pitch, and Mike Shildt revealed a concerning update aft the game, per Annie Heilbrunn.
Shildt said Tatis' x-ray is antagonistic but is "not successful a bully place." Shildt said they're trying to fig Tatis' wounded out. Medical squad said deed is successful a "tough spot wherever there's a batch of bones" ... x-ray is antagonistic but they volition bash much imaging tomorrow
That's surely not what the Padres privation to hear, particularly with the mode the discourtesy has struggled lately.
Jackson Merrill is besides connected the IL aft suffering a concussion, and the Padres losing Tatis' firepower and spark would beryllium a pugnacious stroke to the team.
If Tatis is retired for immoderate clip owed to the deed by pitch, it volition apt bleed this play implicit successful August erstwhile these 2 National League West rivals conscionable again.
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