{"id":85741,"date":"2024-09-16T19:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=85741"},"modified":"2024-09-16T19:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:23:44","slug":"dodgers-austin-barnes-broken-toe-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/16\/dodgers-austin-barnes-broken-toe-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Catcher Has Broken Toe Again, Heading to IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/barneau01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin Barnes<\/a> has a new fracture in his big left toe, Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register is reporting. Barnes said the X-rays revealed that the fracture is in a different spot than <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/19\/dodgers-austin-barnes-broken-toe\/\" target=\"_self\">the one from last month.<\/a> Barnes was removed from last night&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Braves in the top of the fifth inning when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=smithwi05,smithwi04,smith-090wil,smith-088wil,smith-091wil&amp;search=Will+Smith&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Smith<\/a> pinch-hit for him. <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1835794752853155946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dodgers announced<\/a> Barnes will go on the injured list.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dodgers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Dodgers<\/a> Austin Barnes said he had X-rays on his left big toe. They showed a new fracture in a different spot from last months fracture<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billplunkettocr\/status\/1835783531789975932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the latest episode in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/09\/dodgers-injury-updates-all-star-break\/\" target=\"_self\">an injury-plagued season<\/a> for the Boys in Blue. The number of healthy players who have managed to stay healthy all season is rather short.<\/p>\n<h2>Austin Barnes Heads Back to Injured List with Fractured Toe<\/h2>\n<h3>D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/h3>\n<p>The backup catcher took a foul ball off his left toe similar to the one against the St. Louis Cardinals a month ago. Barnes said it was difficult to walk after a half-inning had passed. Furthermore, manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/roberda07.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave Roberts<\/a> said that it is rare for the veteran backstop to take himself out of a game.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in a month that the signal caller will visit the injured list. This is rough news for someone as durable as Barnes, who is instrumental in handling a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/10\/dodgers-yoshinobu-yamamoto-return-60-day-il\/\" target=\"_self\">pitching staff<\/a> that has suffered more than its <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/10\/dodgers-yoshinobu-yamamoto-return-60-day-il\/\" target=\"_self\">fair share<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/06\/dodgers-getting-internal-pitching-reinforcements\/\" target=\"_self\">injuries<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Offensive Outburst<\/h3>\n<p>Not only is the backup catcher known for his veteran leadership and a clubhouse favorite, but he has also had a good year with the bat. He has a batting average of .261, which is 40 points higher than his career average. This has been an unexpected boon for the Dodgers since Will Smith has struggled in the second half this season.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes&#8217; placement on the 15-day IL means he is done for the regular season. However, the Dodgers hope that he will be available for the postseason, according to Roberts. Catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/feduchu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Feduccia<\/a> has been called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes has a new fracture in his big left toe, Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register is reporting. Barnes said the X-rays revealed that the fracture is in a different spot than the one from last month. Barnes was removed from last night&#8217;s game against the Atlanta Braves in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5226,"featured_media":85770,"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":[2914,257,28711,2513,305],"class_list":["post-85741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-austin-barnes","tag-dave-roberts","tag-hunter-feduccia","tag-injured-list","tag-will-smith"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741","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=85741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}