Teoscar Hernández left Wednesday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies after grabbing his left hamstring and being diagnosed with a strained left hamstring. The injury comes as the Dodgers continue to cope with the earlier loss of Kiké Hernández for at lea
LOS ANGELES — Teoscar Hernández was moving like he was chasing one more good inning.
In the second inning Wednesday night against the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. Hernández broke down the line trying to beat out a groundball. Then, he reached for his left hamstring. His reaction was immediate, the kind of instinctive grab that turns a routine play into something far more serious.
The Dodgers quickly announced that Hernández had a strained left hamstring. After crossing the bag, he grabbed at the area and took a long stroll back to the dugout. Once there, he grabbed his helmet and hit it against the equipment rack, frustration written into the small, sharp movements.
Hyeseong Kim took Hernández’s place in left field to begin the third inning.
Hernández’s frustration didn’t end when play stopped. As he headed down the tunnel with head trainer Thomas Albert, he was seen grabbing his helmet again, the look of someone who knows he’s being slowed from inside. “Not great,” a post on the day’s broadcast noted.
The injury lands at a difficult time for Hernández and for the Dodgers. In May, he had been resurgent, posting an .892 OPS while smiling through the kind of run that has made him feel like a fixture on the Los Angeles roster across his three-year tenure.
But the timing is even more jarring because the Dodgers have already been dealing with another absence: Kiké Hernández is out for at least six to eight weeks with a “significant tear” of his left oblique.
For Hernández, this isn’t the first time the Dodgers have had to manage a hamstring-related scare. He missed time in 2025 with a strained left groin. and in spring training he said he had played the rest of the way while guarding that injury. That decision came during one of the roughest stretches of his Dodgers time — a .672 OPS for the remainder of the season. paired with lackluster defense in right field.
This spring, Hernández pointed to how much the injury had affected his movement. “I wasn’t moving the way I know I can move,” he said.
Now the question is whether the strained left hamstring will keep him out again, and for how long. If Hernández does need to miss time, Los Angeles has options.
Alex Call could slot into left field after entering Wednesday with a .792 OPS, including a .417 on-base percentage, in spot playing time. Kim has also played some outfield, giving the Dodgers another internal shuffle.
On the roster side, Ryan Ward is on the 40-man roster after a brief debut last month. Tyler Fitzgerald has also been on the radar; he was already looming as a possibility as the Dodgers discussed how to fill out their roster this week. and he has played some corner outfield at Triple-A Oklahoma City.
The Dodgers also have Alek Thomas, acquired via trade this month with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Thomas is on the 40-man roster, but since the trade he has spent the time working on swing tweaks at the Dodgers’ spring complex in Arizona.
And there is more depth beyond the majors: the Dodgers have prospect James Tibbs III, who entered Wednesday with a 1.028 OPS and 12 home runs for Oklahoma City.
Everything is moving at once for Los Angeles — one hamstring leaving the lineup, another injury already stretching the schedule. For Hernández, the moment after he grabbed his left hamstring looked like the start of a setback. For the Dodgers. the next question is whether they can absorb it the way they’ve been forced to absorb everything else: with speed. with rearranging. and with a roster that has to keep finding the right answer fast.
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