The Los Angeles Dodgers placed Matt Kemp on the 15-day disabled list Thursday, resting the struggling outfielder with a mild right hamstring strain. Kemp injured the hamstring running down a double late in the team's 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Matt Kemp injury: Dodgers CF placed on DL with right hamstring strain
You can add injury to the list of things troubling Matt Kemp.
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Kemp downplayed the injury in comments after the game, specifically noting that it was not as bad as the left hamstring injuries that kept him out of most of the first half of the 2012 season. The lineup for the Dodgers for Thursday's game against the Angels had Andre Ethier in center field, with Scott Van Slyke replacing Ethier in right.
That’s probably not ideal, but Kemp heading to the DL doesn’t leave the team many options. Dodgers blog True Blue LA evaluates the situation:
Skip Schumaker is the backup center fielder on the roster, but not an every day option. Mattingly would also prefer to keep Carl Crawford in left field. In Triple-A the Dodgers have non-roster choices Tony Gwynn Jr. and Alfredo Amezaga, or utility man Elian Herrera, who is on the 40-man roster, but none of those are intriguing or compelling enough to add much to the Dodgers.
The injury is only the latest thing to go wrong for Kemp in 2013. He is hitting .251/.305/.335 with just two home runs in 51 games.
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