Gonsolin

Dustin May needed elbow surgery and will not be a factor until the middle of next season, at the earliest while Tony Gonsolin will miss the entire 2024 season after needing Tommy John surgery.

Gonsolin got a little defensive help from Outman, who made a nice running, jumping catch of a Brendan Rodgers drive to the wall with a runner aboard to end the top of the sixth, preserving a 3-1 lead.

L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 6-4) at San Diego (Lugo 4-5), 4:10 p.m.

Los Angeles Dodgers startier Tony Gonsolin follows through on a pitch to a Colorado Rockies batter during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023.

Roberts stated Gonsolin will return to the workforce’s Camelback Ranch Arizona facility subsequent week to face the hitters on Wednesday.

Rookie shortstop Ezequiel Tovar drove the game’s first pitch — a 91 mph four-seam fastball from Gonsolin — 426 feet to center for his 12th homer of the season.

The Dodgers were offering a $3 million salary for 2023 while Gonsolin filed at $3.4 million.

Tony Gonsolin gave up just one hit in five innings and Mookie Betts slugged a three-run home run as the Dodgers won 5-0 at St. Louis on Friday night.

As Gonsolin makes his way through the process, he is grateful for the opportunity presented by Tommy John — one he knows wasn't available to big leaguers before 1974.

Gonsolin and May – neither of whom pitched in the majors in 2024 while recovering from surgeries – were among the Dodgers’ 10 arbitration-eligible players.

After Tony Gonsolin gave up a first-inning home run to Randy Arozarena, Roberts didn’t let him face the Rays’ record-setting postseason threat again.

Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts had left-hander Alex Wood warming in the bullpen after Gonsolin allowed two men on with only one out.

Gonsolin did not pitch a simulation game Saturday as reporters were originally told but instead threw out of a bullpen instead.

Gonsolin, Dylan Floro, Alex Wood, Pedro Baez, Victor Gonzalez, Brusdar Graterol and Julio Urias would all pitch in the game.

Gonsolin is a promising player in the Dodgers organization, but he has been asked to do too much this postseason.

Gonsolin then replaced May in the second.

Randy Arozarena, the powerful Tampa Bay rookie, extended his postseason record with his 10th homer in the first off rookie right-hander Tony Gonsolin, the first of seven Dodgers pitchers.

Reliever Dylan Floro, not starter Tony Gonsolin, faced Arozarena.

So were Pederson, Will Smith, Matt Beaty and Edwin Rios among position players, and Julio Urías, Victor González, Walker Buehler, Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May among the pitchers (along with, of course, veterans Clayton Kershaw, Báez and Kenley Jansen).

The 26-year-old Gonsolin will be making his major league postseason debut.