Yamamoto was used to pitching once a week in Japan so the Dodgers have given him at least five days off before every start this season. Dave Roberts says they won’t ask him to pitch more frequently in the postseason.

Dodgers beginning pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was accustomed to contributing once seven days Japan, so the Dodgers have given him no less than five days off before each start this season. Chief Dave Roberts says they will not request that he pitch all the more habitually during the postseason. (Photograph by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Pictures ATLANTA — When they marked Yoshinobu Yamamoto the previous winter, the Dodgers earnestly committed to keeping the 26-year-old right-hander on a timetable however close as conceivable to what he might have been utilized to in Japan.

That implied giving him something like five days off before each beginning. It didn’t keep him from getting harmed and enjoying three months uninvolved with a stressed rotator sleeve.

In any case, it won’t change in October. Dodgers administrator Dave Roberts said Yamamoto will get somewhere around five days off before each postseason start too.

“I’m not saying it’s anything but a chance but rather it’s as yet impossible,” Roberts said of beginning Yamamoto on ‘customary’ rest (four days off) in the postseason. “With what we’ve done, we will attempt to give him as much rest as he’s had.

“At the point when we procured him, this is the sort of thing we anticipated doing.”

In Japan, Yamamoto was accustomed to pitching one time per week. The Dodgers have begun Yamamoto on five days off rest multiple times, at least six days multiple times. Roberts recognized that the Dodgers could have attempted to work in a beginning or two on four days off rest sooner or later during the season in the event that Yamamoto had remained solid yet “it wasn’t to be.”

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With movement days worked in, holding Yamamoto to (at least five) days off between starts probably won’t be troublesome. Be that as it may, it is one more component to consider for a Dodgers group prone to enter the postseason attempting to get all they can out of their two most dependable, sound starters – Yamamoto and Jack Flaherty.

“We must sort out how best to keep him new, sharp, ready, number one,” Roberts said. “Then number two, fill in the pieces. Shoot, I’d very much want to have four people that can continue brief reprieve or normal rest however it’s simply not attainable.”

ROSTER MOVES

Catcher Austin Barnes suffered a fracture in his left big toe when he was hit by a foul ball in the third inning of Sunday night’s game. He was placed on the injured list and Hunter Feduccia was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City.

This is the second fracture in the same toe suffered by Barnes. He spent time on the IL last month with the first injury and was able to return in 10 days. Roberts said the Dodgers hope to have Barnes back from this injury in time for the postseason.

Meanwhile, relief pitcher Joe Kelly completed his rehab assignment with OKC and joined the Dodgers in Atlanta on Monday. The right-hander was not activated from the IL but will be at some point this week, Roberts said.

GLASNOW CLARIFICATION

Roberts said he exchanged texts with right-hander Tyler Glasnow and clarified why Glasnow left the team and why Roberts said on Sunday he did not know where Glasnow went.

“Basically, I knew he was going to be gone. I just don’t feel it needed to be public information where he’s going,” Roberts said. “It’s certainly an excused absence. Obviously he’s very disappointed and frustrated. I supported the fact that he needed to be away and that’s okay.”

Roberts said the absence does not involve Glasnow getting his injured elbow examined. He is expected to rejoin the Dodgers when they return to Los Angeles later this week.

ALSO

Left-hander Anthony Banda is at the Dodgers’ complex in Arizona “playing catch,” Roberts said, and has not been ruled out for a return “before the end of the season.”

Banda broke his left hand when he punched a “solid object” after a poor outing last week.

UP NEXT

Dodgers (RHP Bobby Miller, 2-4, 8.17 ERA) at Marlins (RHP Darren McCaughan, 0-0, 7.06 ERA), Tuesday, 3:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, 570 AM