One day after suffering a left hand fracture, Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star center fielder Andy Pages was placed on the 10-day injured list, with center fielder Alek Thomas recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City on Saturday to fill his spot.
Pages, 25, is expected to miss at least a month after he was hit by a pitch on the back of his left hand on Friday by Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Bubba Chandler in the Dodgers’ 5-4, 10-inning home victory. Pages was hit by the pitch in the third but remained in the game until he was replaced in the outfield by Enrique Hernandez in the fifth.
“It’s not season-ending because things like (this) are four to five weeks,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said postgame. “I would expect him back, knowing him, on the earlier side. It will be four weeks, but there is time in the season for him to be back.”
Pages is batting .272 with a .338 on-base percentage, a .458 slugging percentage, 21 home runs and 80 RBIs in 128 games this season.
Along with Thomas, the right-handed-hitting Hernandez and switch-hitting Tommy Edman are expected to help out in center over the next month.
An All-Star this year for the first time in his third season, Pages is a career .265/.319/.445 hitter with 61 home runs and 212 RBIs in 400 games.
Thomas, 26, was acquired from the Diamondbacks on May 12 for minor-leaguer Jose Requena and has yet to make his Dodgers debut. A second-round pick by Arizona in the 2018 draft, Thomas was hitting .181 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in 28 games this season at the time of the trade.
Over parts of five seasons, all with the Diamondbacks, Thomas is a .230 hitter with 31 home runs and 143 RBIs in 448 games.
