Tim Redding added to list of injured Dodgers

Right-handed starter Tim Redding exited the Dodgers' 6-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the fourth inning Friday because of lower back pain on his right side. Redding immediately returned to Phoenix, where he was scheduled to be examined.

With Jon Garland expected to start the season on the disabled list because of a strained side muscle, Redding was the favorite to replace him as the Dodgers' fifth starter. If Redding is hurt, the job is likely to  go to John Ely.

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Photo: Tim Redding works against the Giants in a spring training game two weeks ago. Credit: Eric Risberg / Associated Press

Comments

[16blows]

The 'Conte Club' grows by one more... appears Stan is the man again 2011.

Ghosts of injury past... it seems to me I've heard this song before, it's from an old familiar score. RSVP - standing room only, long lines and wait times for open training tables groaning under the weight sweet song of malady as the Med Evac continues spring training battlefield Arizona.

Roll call: Redding joins PaDiLla... Garland... Blake... Navarro... a cast (least heavily taped) cadre mostly 30 sporting somethings.

Honorable mention Loney's leg, Carroll's finger & Gibbons eyes... they have it. Kuo's always tenuous elbow, Furcal's ever tricky back- why, it makes one long for those simpler times like a Belisario visa problem, an Elbert leave of absence and a McCourtroom donnybrook.

Scanning the prostrate horizons baseball landscape, the outlook is oblique - check that - 'bleak' dudger fans...

PLAY BALL!

[Skyharbor]

Thanks "16blows" for your imaginative Saturday morning cartoon blending George Gershwin's Rhapsody (travesty) in Blue with Ernie Pyle's reporting on the McCourt Death March. As Eisenhower was to Normandy..."16blows" could be to the Invasion of Malibu. Vin would like that.

[N.P.Krohn]

Good piece of writing 16 blows but still so pecimistic. Aside from Garland whatever ailments have sprung up this spring are trivial or help the team in terms of youth development and erasing mistakes made by Coletti. Can't wait to see your prose put to a better purpose when the great someday of a better Dodger tomorrow happens upon us.

[16blows]

@Skyharbor

"blending"

- a little Gershwin, a bit of Pyle and a copious resignation... damnation as a dudger same... doomed. When of late (last 22) consider timeless seasons wobble by, am reminded EM Cioran, who said "My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."

@NP Krohn

"the great someday of a better Dodger tomorrow"

- (Norman Peale?) you are either an optimist OR dudger fan- can be no other choice. With apologies to Mr. Serling, be no "middle ground between light & shadow, 'tween science & superstition", dudger baseball. "Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." - yes, 'nother gem from EM.

One man's optimism be another's xerophagy. Circa 2011 I believe that e'en Kermit would admit it's easier bein' green than dudger blue, his search that rainbow connection placed in abeyance TFN...