{"id":106124,"date":"2025-08-20T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=106124"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:17:28","slug":"dodgers-call-up-paul-gervase-option-alexis-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/08\/20\/dodgers-call-up-paul-gervase-option-alexis-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Call Up One Recent Acquisition, Option Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mile-high air in Colorado is known to take its toll on a pitching staff. As such, the Los Angeles Dodgers have called up reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gervapa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Gervase<\/a> and optioned reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazal03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexis D\u00edaz<\/a> to Triple-A Oklahoma City, according to Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register. The right-handers trade places as the Dodgers look to maintain their slim lead in the National League West as they take on the Colorado Rockies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106131\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106131\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/USATSI_26763616_168400885_lowres-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aug 2, 2025; St. Petersburg, Florida, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Alexis Diaz (40) throws a pitch against the Tampa Bay Rays during the seventh inning at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Morgan Tencza-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Dodgers Call Up Paul Gervase, Option Alexis D\u00edaz<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dodgers recalled RHP Paul Gervase and optioned RHP Alexis Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1958291874327974220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>A Work in Progress<\/h3>\n<p>Los Angeles has suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/30\/dodgers-evan-phillips-tommy-john-surgery\/\" target=\"_self\">multiple injuries<\/a> to their right-handed bullpen arms. As a result, they <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/29\/reliever-alexis-diaz-traded-dodgers\/\" target=\"_self\">traded<\/a> for D\u00edaz earlier this year. The right-hander was a former All-Star for the Cincinnati Reds, and has struggled to regain the control he had in 2022-2023. A reclamation project of sorts, the former closer has shown flashes of his former self. In nine games, he has struck out nine batters and notched one save, but still has a 5.00 ERA. While it is down from 9.00 from earlier this season, D\u00edaz&#8217;s walk and home run rate remain high, and there is still room for improvement.<\/p>\n<h3>An Under-the-Radar Trade<\/h3>\n<p>For his part, Paul Gervase was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/08\/01\/dodgers-reliever-kirby-yates-returns-injured-list-back\/\" target=\"_self\">acquired at the trade deadline<\/a> as part of a three-team trade with the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cincinnati Reds. Since being in the Dodgers&#8217; system, the 6&#8217;10&#8221; hurler has impressed. In five games at Oklahoma City, he has gone 8 2\/3 innings with nine strikeouts and one walk. He has allowed two runs on six hits, which comes out to a 2.08 ERA.<\/p>\n<h3>Are They Finally Getting Healthy?<\/h3>\n<p>Right-handers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kopecmi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Kopech<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yateski01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kirby Yates<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scottta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanner Scott<\/a> are all on rehab assignments. Kopech has had a couple of appearances and is still trying to get his repertoire under control. Yates and Scott pitched a scoreless inning each last night. All three could join the Dodgers&#8217; bullpen at the end of next week. Los Angeles could use the reinforcements, as the National League West division race will probably come down to the wire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photro Credit: Lon Horwedel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mile-high air in Colorado is known to take its toll on a pitching staff. As such, the Los Angeles Dodgers have called up reliever Paul Gervase and optioned reliever Alexis D\u00edaz to Triple-A Oklahoma City, according to Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register. The right-handers trade places as the Dodgers look to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":106132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,926,1071,35],"tags":[5676,2845,771,29100,5660],"class_list":["post-106124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-milb","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alexis-diaz","tag-kirby-yates","tag-michael-kopech","tag-paul-gervase","tag-tanner-scott"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106134,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions\/106134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}