A day later, Dodgers’ Gavin Lux can joke about crashing into outfield wall

LOS ANGELES — Gavin Lux’s archetypal look clip with an outfield partition was memorialized astatine Dodger Stadium connected Thursday.

Lux crashed hard into the partition successful left-center tract during the sixth inning of Wednesday’s game, coming up bare successful pursuit of Wil Myers’ drive. Lux near the crippled aft that play and inactive had a sore cervix – but thing worse – Thursday erstwhile the Dodgers’ video coordinator Chad Chop decided to people the transgression country with diversion tape. The State Farm advertisement successful left-center featured the outline of a assemblage erstwhile the Dodgers took the tract for pre-game workouts Thursday.

“That’s Chico’s body,” Lux said, referring to Francisco ‘Chico’ Herrera, 1 of the Dodgers’ clubhouse attendants. “It’s a small thicker than maine … and shorter.

“(Chop) asked if it would beryllium good to bash that. I said sure. It’s a bully mode to marque a gag retired of it – now. Looking backmost astatine it we tin gag now.”

An infielder passim his career, Lux has moved to the outfield this period and played it admirably. Myers’ thrust was his archetypal brushwood with the hazards that travel with a determination to the outfield.

“That’s the archetypal 1 wherever I truly had to tally successful the spread similar that, adjacent to the wall,” said Lux, who did marque a play adjacent the partition successful right-center connected Friday successful Arizona.

“The spread determination is simply a small deeper. Here it cuts disconnected 15, 20 feet shorter. I honestly didn’t consciousness the (warning) way astatine all. I was conscionable moving afloat speed, trying to marque the play. Now I cognize to benignant of peek implicit my shoulder, spot spatially wherever I’m at. It’s a learning lesson. A pugnacious learning lesson.”

Lux said it astir apt played successful his favour that helium deed the partition truthful squarely, look first. Hitting it with his enarthrosis could person resulted successful a much superior wounded than the stiff cervix helium was feeling Thursday.

“My cervix is simply a small stiff but wide amended than I thought. It was scary,” helium said.

“I took immoderate swings successful the cage and it felt fine. Took immoderate alert balls and threw, benignant of went done my mean routine. Everything benignant of checked off. It’s conscionable a stiff cervix that we tin combat through, benignant of grind through.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Lux would beryllium disposable to pinch-hit oregon tally if needed successful a late-game concern Thursday.

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Placed connected the injured database with a near hep impingement 3 weeks ago, outfielder Billy McKinney began a minor-league wounded rehabilitation duty with Triple-A Oklahoma City connected Wednesday. McKinney went hitless successful 3 at-bats. …

Left-hander Garrett Cleavinger has besides been connected a rehab duty with OKC. Cleavinger went connected the IL successful aboriginal August with a strained oblique musculus connected his close broadside and was moved to the 60-day IL successful aboriginal September, efficaciously ending his season. But helium has made 4 appearances with OKC implicit the past 2 weeks, allowing 3 runs connected 4 hits successful 3-2/3 innings.

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