Breaking News: Dodgers place another starting pitcher on the injured list due to shoulder inflammation

The Dodgers placed right-handed pitcher Gavin Stone on the injured list on Friday, depriving the team of the only starting pitcher who has played the entire season without missing a start due to injury.

Stone, 25, is 11-5 with a 3.53 ERA this season and was poised to make an early start in a potential postseason series.

The right-handed pitcher was placed on the 15-day injured list as part of a series of roster moves ahead of the Dodgers' series opener against the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night.

The Dodgers also sent right-handed reliever Michael Peterson to Triple-A Oklahoma City and activated right-hander Landon Knack and left-hander Justin Wrobleski. Knack starts Friday. Wrobleski could theoretically take Stone's place in the Dodgers' rotation.

It's just the latest in a series of setbacks for the Dodgers' rotation throughout the season.

Tyler Glasnow, who started on Opening Day, has been on the injured list twice this year because of back and elbow problems. The Dodgers hope he can return in October, but time is running out.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed the largest contract ever given to a pitcher last December – $325 million over 12 years – but was sidelined for three months with a rotator cuff injury.

Clayton Kershaw began the year on the injured list as he recovered from offseason shoulder surgery. He returned in July and showed some potential, but had to leave his last start with a bone spur in his left big toe. Kershaw is currently wearing a walking boot.

Walker Buehler and Bobby Miller are both now healthy again, but were on the injured list for some time due to hip and shoulder injuries respectively. Neither of them has returned to the top form that the Dodgers had hoped for.

Rookies River Ryan and Kyle Hurt weren't expected to be part of the rotation this season, but both likely would have been there due to injuries to their more experienced teammates – had their seasons not been cut short by Tommy John surgery.

Meanwhile, Dustin May, Tony Gonsolin and Emmet Sheehan are also recovering from the ligament replacement surgery named after the former Dodgers pitcher. None of them are expected to pitch this year.

With that in mind, Stone's injury — less than four weeks before the end of the regular season — couldn't come at a worse time. Knack (2-2 with a 3.00 ERA in 10 starts) will likely have plenty of time to show he belongs in the major leagues — at least in the regular season, if not the postseason as well.

Stone, the Dodgers' fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft, has never been on the injured list in his career.

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