{"id":85326,"date":"2024-09-10T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=85326"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:25:46","slug":"tony-gonsolin-triple-a-rehab-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/10\/tony-gonsolin-triple-a-rehab-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Right-Hander Takes First Step Towards Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers received a boost on Tuesday as one of their key right-handed pitchers began a rehab assignment, marking a significant milestone in his recovery from injury. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gonsoto01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Gonsolin<\/a> will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Tuesday. It will be Gonsolin&#8217;s first game action since he underwent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnto01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy John<\/a> surgery a year ago. A return for Gonsolin before the end of the season has not been ruled out, but if it happens it he would be used in a relief role.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Cat man is scheduled to pitch on Bark in the Park Night&#8230; how fitting \u2728 First pitch is at 6:05, see you there!<\/p>\n<p>\u26be <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eeScJIhiNv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/eeScJIhiNv<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rfmmz8IXxh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rfmmz8IXxh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oklahoma City Baseball Club (@okc_baseball) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okc_baseball\/status\/1833550662258323732?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tony Gonsolin to Begin Rehab Assignment<\/h2>\n<p>Gonsolin, 30, was 8-5 with a 4.98 ERA over 20 starts with the Dodgers in 2023 before surgery. His last outing was the worst of his career. He gave up ten runs on eight hits and four walks in 3 1\/3 innings on August 18 against the Miami Marlins. That came after a fantastic 2022 season when he was 16-1 with a 2.14 ERA in 24 starts and was named an All-Star for the first time. Gonsolin had a career 3.19 ERA, having started 71 of his 79 outings. Coming back as a reliever could be another boost to a depleted pitching staff.<\/p>\n<h3>Dodgers Rotation in a Continual Flux<\/h3>\n<p>Out since the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/06\/dodgers-getting-internal-pitching-reinforcements\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">middle of June<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yamamyo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> will return Tuesday. The Dodgers decided to bring Yamamoto back after he made only two Triple-A rehab starts. He likely won&#8217;t be stretched out to more than four innings, but he&#8217;ll have four starts to prepare for October. Yamamoto&#8217;s return comes with the Dodgers rotation in dire straits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/flaheja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Flaherty<\/a> is the only lock for the postseason at the moment. Rookie right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=stonega01,stone-001gav&amp;search=Gavin+Stone&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gavin Stone<\/a> could earn a spot if he progresses <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/08\/dodgers-mookie-betts-shortstop\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">health-wise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/glasnty01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Glasnow<\/a> has been out since August 11 due to elbow tendinitis. However, the right-hander is expected to throw bullpen sessions again this weekend. Left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kershcl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clayton Kershaw<\/a> returned to the injured list with a bone spur in his left toe. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/buehlwa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walker Buehler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/millebo06.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bobby Miller<\/a> have been inconsistent throughout the season, though Buehler has shown signs of improvement of late.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a0Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers received a boost on Tuesday as one of their key right-handed pitchers began a rehab assignment, marking a significant milestone in his recovery from injury. Tony Gonsolin will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City on Tuesday. It will be Gonsolin&#8217;s first game action since he underwent Tommy John surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[6489,97,28620,3207,2056,1245,2265,6553],"class_list":["post-85326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-bobby-miller","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jack-flaherty","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-tyler-glasnow","tag-walker-buehler","tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}