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Fellow rehabbing rotation-mate Merrill Kelly will throw a simulated game on Thursday. Rodriguez has been shelved since the preseason due to lingering soreness in his shoulder and has yet to make his highly anticipated debut with the Diamondbacks. Barring any additional setbacks, he should be ready at some point in mid-August.

Muncy singled and walked three times before putting a ball into the second deck in the ninth. That was his 13th homer in 54 career postseason games, and he’s currently 4-for-8 with two homers and five walks in the NLCS. The Dodgers have a 2-1 series lead heading into Game 4 on Thursday. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Jose Quintana are slated to start.

Buehler did find himself in a couple of jams, but this was perhaps the best he’s looked all season. Working exclusively out of the stretch, he got 18 swings and misses and had a 39% CSW. All three hits he allowed were singles. After seeing this, the Dodgers definitely must feel quite a bit better about a potential Game 7 than they did a day ago.

Both runs came in the second, which featured a bad call from Francisco Alvarez to throw to second on a tapper in front of the plate with a man on the first. He failed to get the out there, when he would have had an easy play at first. Severino might have gotten out of the inning anyway, but he deflected a comebacker that he could have turned into an out at home or that at least would have been an out at first had it gone through to the shortstop. Severino was effective otherwise, even though he walked four. The loss was his first in three postseason starts.

Ohtani’s homer off Tyler Megill in the eighth put away what had been a 4-0 game. It was his first homer since he came through in his first at-bat in the NLDS against the Padres. He’s 3-for-11 with a 3/4 K/BB in the NLCS after winding up 4-for-20 with a 10/2 K/BB in the NLDS.

Rojas was left off the NLCS roster after aggravating what was originally described as an adductor injury in Game 3 of the NLDS. Surgery shouldn’t prevent him from being ready for the start of 2025.

The Dodgers said Hudson was unavailable for Game 2 after he pitched in Game 1 against the Mets, but no injury reason was provided at the time. Hudson missed much of 2022 and ’23 because of a torn ACL and a subsequent setback.

Stewart’s group has also been involved in the push for an expansion team in Nashville, though that’s been slow going. The 88-year-old Reinsdorf has owned the White Sox since 1981, but he’s come under increasing fire lately with his team’s losing ways and his resistance to looking outside of the organization for answers. He’s also been aiming for a new ballpark. News of a possible sale comes as quite a surprise; expectations were that he’d retain both the White Sox and the NBA’s Bulls for the rest of his life.

Arraez was dealing with a torn ligament in his left thumb according to Daniel-Alvarez Montes of ElExtraBase.com. Alvarez-Montes also notes that the surgery went well and that Arraez expected to be fully ready for spring training. The 27-year-old will attempt to lead the league in batting average for the fourth time in his short career.

Lux was removed from the lineup against the Mets with a hip flexor issue in Game 1 and didn’t play Game 2, but with right-hander Luis Severino on the mound, he’s back at the keystone for the pivotal Game 3. The full lineup for Los Angeles: DH Shohei Ohtani, RF Mookie Betts, 1B Freddie Freeman, 3B Max Muncy, LF Teoscar Hernandez, 2B Lux, C Will Smith, SS Tommy Edman and CF Enrique Hernandez.

Even with right-hander Walker Buehler on the mound, the Mets will go with Martinez as the designated hitter with Mets manager Carlos Mendoza noting that Buehler has ‘neutral’ split stats. That’s a nice way of saying Buehler has been bad and may not be in the game long. The full lineup for the Mets: SS Francisco Lindor, 3B Mark Vientos, LF Brandon Nimmo, 1B Pete Alonso, RF Starling Marte, DH Martinez, 2B Jose Iglesias, CF Tyrone Taylor and C Francisco Alvarez.