{"id":107366,"date":"2025-09-16T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=107366"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:40:30","slug":"dodgers-rookie-catcher-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/16\/dodgers-rookie-catcher-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Rookie Catcher Activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers activated catcher Dalton Rushing off the Injured List. To make room on the 40-man roster, Chuck Robinson has been optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Los Angeles has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/13\/dodgers-all-star-catcher-goes-on-il\/\" target=\"_self\">without their two top catchers<\/a> for a week. Now, if all goes well, the Dodgers will get both Rushing and All-Star Will Smith back by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Rookie Catcher Activated<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dodgers have activated catcher Dalton Rushing from the injured list and optioned catcher Chuckie Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1968093251090649299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Bruised and Banged up<\/h3>\n<p>Rushing has been sidelined since the Dodgers last road trip. He had to be helped off the field in Baltimore after taking a foul ball off his shin. Both X-rays and the CT scans were negative so there were no fractures. However, the rookie did sustain a significant bone bruise. This was a day after Will Smith took <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/25\/dodgers-will-smith-back-in-lineup-tonight\/\" target=\"_self\">a foul tip<\/a> off the right hand that eventually sent him to the I.L. as well. Fortunately, both backstops seem to have escaped a prolonged injury.<\/p>\n<h3>Ups and Downs of a Rookie Season<\/h3>\n<p>For his part, Rushing has a batting average of .190 with three home runs and 21 runs batted in. This is a far cry from what he was batting in the minors before the Dodgers called him up after <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/05\/14\/dodgers-call-up-dalton-rushing-dfa-austin-barnes\/\" target=\"_self\">releasing veteran<\/a> Austin Barnes. However, Los Angeles is far more concerned with Rushing learning the pitching staff and throwing out runners from behind the plate, than his offensive production.<\/p>\n<h3>Promising Signs?<\/h3>\n<p>One of those three home runs came against the division rival San Diego Padres. The rookie kept fouling off pitches which led to a full count. Rushing got a pitch he could handle and deposited it over the fence for a critical three-run homer. It was the difference in the game and preserved the Dodgers first-place standing.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen, but that swing could be the difference between winning and losing the National League West.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers activated catcher Dalton Rushing off the Injured List. To make room on the 40-man roster, Chuck Robinson has been optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City. Los Angeles has been without their two top catchers for a week. Now, if all goes well, the Dodgers will get both Rushing and All-Star Will Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":107393,"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":[33,1071,35],"tags":[2914,28402,305],"class_list":["post-107366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-austin-barnes","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-will-smith"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107366","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=107366"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107394,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107366\/revisions\/107394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}