Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia makes early exit with stomach bug

DENVER –– It appeared the altitude acquired to Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia on Tuesday evening.

That, or possibly the smash burger he had for lunch.

Feduccia was compelled to go away the workforce’s 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday evening within the backside of the seventh inning, after showing to grow to be in poor health behind the plate and throwing up within the dugout.

“He’s acquired this abdomen bug or meals poisoning, one thing like that,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned afterward. “He was scuffling all sport. So lastly –– he went so long as he might go.”

Certainly, Feduccia was catching his second-straight sport on this week’s sequence, and fourth within the final 5 days, when he lastly gave method with one out within the seventh.

After catching a slider from reliever Edgardo Henriquez for a strikeout to start the inning, Feduccia doubled over behind the plate and regarded like he was about to retch.

He shortly raced off the sector and again down the dugout stairs, however left behind a path that required a stadium employee to later mop up close to the workforce’s third-base bench.

“He gave us an important effort,” Roberts mentioned, after Ben Rortvedt changed Feduccia to finish the sport.

Feduccia was a part of a second-straight resurgent efficiency from the Dodgers’ offense, drawing two early walks of their eventual series-clinching win.

The victory was additionally keyed by Shohei Ohtani, who adopted Feduccia’s first free go together with his thirtieth residence run of the season within the third; Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández, who every had two hits and mixed for 3 RBIs; and even Kyle Tucker, who snapped his career-worst 0-for-26 hitless streak with an RBI double within the fourth.

Simply as vital, nonetheless, was a five-inning, four-run begin from Eric Lauer (a passing grade at mile-high altitude) and 4 innings of two-run ball from the bullpen (punctuated by a four-out save from Tanner Scott).

Feduccia was essential to that effort early, displaying his rising consolation degree with the Dodgers’ big-league pitching workers.

The previous unheralded prospect –– who was traded by the workforce finally yr’s deadline, then reacquired this yr to bolster the workforce’s banged-up catching depth –– has grow to be the workforce’s major backstop currently, beginning for the ninth time within the final 14 video games on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, nonetheless, he’ll get a deserved break.

“I believe we’re simply attempting to hydrate him,” Roberts mentioned postgame. “He’ll be down tomorrow.”

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