Dodgers at Twins, 5:10 p.m.

  • Tony Gwynn Jr., LF
  • Casey Blake, 1B
  • Andre Ethier, RF
  • Matt Kemp, CF
  • Juan Uribe, 3B
  • Marcus Thames, DH
  • Aaron Miles, 2B
  • A.J. Ellis, C
  • Jamey Carroll, SS
  • (Ted Lilly, P)

Is Jonathan Broxton’s Dodger career over? Maybe not, but it’s increasingly possible that the Dodger reliever, who will be a free agent at season’s end, won’t appear in a game for the team again with today’s news that he is being shut down from throwing for at least three more weeks. Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com has more:

… Club officials won’t say at this point that they are counting on getting Broxton back the rest of the season.

“We don’t have a timetable now,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. “We did this once before, where he was shut down for three weeks and did all the stuff to return, and then we got back here. It’s just hard to say now that we’re going to get him back in six weeks or seven weeks or eight weeks. To me, at this point, if we get him back, great, all the better. But we have to kind of move forward.”

Broxton underwent an MRI on Monday in Los Angeles and then consulted with team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache, who determined that the MRI showed a worsening of the bone bruise in Broxton’s elbow and that the best course of action was to shut him down again. …


Though his troubles this year will lower his value on the free agent market, it’s likely that some other team than the Dodgers will pay more to take a chance on the reliever, who only turned 27 this month. For pitchers with at least 300 innings as a Dodger, Broxton is the franchise’s all-time leader in strikeouts per nine innings.

He might make it back this season, but if not, like Russell Martin last fall, he’ll probably be looking at a fresh start.

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The initial news on the bankruptcy court front appeared to drag things out another month, but then again, maybe not.

MLB will “probably” file a motion to seize the Dodgers from Frank McCourt, The Associated Press is reporting. That comes in the wake of the franchise’s initial bankruptcy court hearing today, which ended with McCourt being granted financing on a temporary basis, pending a July 20 hearing, with the TV rights saga still a major hurdle. In short, there was news, but no resolution.