Pederson bruised however OK after HR-robbing catch

LOS ANGELES — Joc Pederson collapsed to the bottom and spent a number of minutes writhing in ache on the right-field warning observe on Monday afternoon. Three close by safety guards hovered over him, biding the time till Dave Roberts and a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ medical workers may make the jog over. Pederson ultimately stood and walked gingerly off the sector.

The prognosis wasn’t almost as dangerous because the incident seemed. Pederson sustained an stomach contusion that will not require him to overlook a lot time, if any. After the sport, a drawn-out, 16-9 victory over the Colorado Rockies, Pederson mentioned he was “feeling lots higher.”

“I obtained the wind knocked out of me and, like, a bizarre cramp in my obliques, rib-ish space, in order that they have been a bit of involved,” Pederson mentioned. “However up to now, so good.”

Pederson suffered the harm whereas reaching over the brief fence to remove a house run from Charlie Blackmon within the high of the fifth. It prematurely ended what was turning right into a dominant efficiency. Pederson homered to guide off the sport, then hit a baseball off the highest of the fence within the second inning and got here again to blast a 416-foot, three-run homer within the third.

Pederson completed with 5 RBIs and have become the third Dodgers participant — after Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy — to achieve 30 residence runs this season. Roberts mentioned he’ll most likely sit Pederson on Tuesday and put him again within the lineup on Wednesday.

Pederson, who hit the go-ahead residence run in Sunday’s 11th inning, got here inside an inch or two of 4 residence runs in a string of 4 plate appearances.

“I have been seeing the ball rather well the final couple days,” he mentioned. “I like the place I am at, swinging at my very own pitches and placing the barrel on it.”