Hyun-Jin Ryu was removed in the third inning Saturday night after being hit on his left arm by by a Joe Panik line drive. Ryu managed to field the ball and make the throw to first base for the out.
He was then checked on by Dodgers head athletic trainer Nate Lucero, and later said to have suffered a forearm contusion. The team added X-rays came back negative. The short start was not what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had planned for the southpaw.
Unlike Kenta Maeda last week, Roberts said Ryu’s outing was not going to be capped at three innings of fewer in anticipation of a move to the bullpen.