PHILADELPHIA _ Weary after 16 innings of baseball on Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers accelerated Pedro Baez's return from the disabled list and flew him to meet the team at Citizens Bank Park. The team had initially planned to activate Baez on Thursday in Atlanta, but after using eight pitchers, and Enrique Hernandez, on Tuesday, the organization felt compelled to bring Baez back a day sooner.
The Dodgers made a pair of roster moves to make room for Baez and Walker Buehler, who was recalled from the minors to start. The team optioned reliever Dylan Floro to triple-A Oklahoma City and put reliever Zac Rosscup on the 10-day disabled list with inflammation in his left middle finger.
Floro had posted a 3.68 earned-run average in seven appearances since the Dodgers acquired him on July 4. Floro logged 2 1/3 innings on Tuesday. Manager Dave Roberts referred to Floro as "a casualty of last night."
"He's thrown very well for us," Roberts said. "But that, unfortunately, had to be the move."
Rosscup missed a significant chunk of time at the start of the year with a blister on his finger. It is unclear if the current inflammation was related to the previous injury, which occurred while Rosscup was in the Colorado Rockies organization.
