The Reds made a couple of roster tweaks Monday afternoon before opening their road series against the Dodgers, bringing back Ke’Bryan Hayes and sending Edwin Arroyo to Triple-A Louisville.
Hayes was activated from the 10-day injured list and immediately slotted back into the lineup at third base, where he hit ninth. He had been sidelined since Aug. 28, with the move backdated to the previous day, after suffering a left groin strain. In all, he missed 11 days.
This is the second injured-list stint of the season for Hayes, who also went down in May with a bulging disc in his back. That injury kept him out for seven weeks before he returned on July 10, just ahead of the All-Star break.
The season has been a rough one for Hayes at the plate. When he landed on the IL in May, he was batting .142/.195/.225 in 44 games.
He was better after coming back, but the production still wasn’t there. In 34 games before the groin strain, he hit .171/.241/.289.
Arroyo’s latest stop sends him back to Louisville after a brief return to Cincinnati. He opened the first two months of the year at Triple-A before the Reds brought him up and used him mostly at second base. His bat never really got going during that first stretch with the big club, and by the end of July he was hitting .244/.286/.282, which led to his first option back to Louisville.
He spent four weeks with the Bats before the Reds recalled him to fill Hayes’ roster spot. This time around, Arroyo appeared in six games and went 1-for-17 with a double and a walk. Now he heads back to the minors, where he’ll look to make adjustments and work his way back to Cincinnati.
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