Blake Treinen’s season ended before he ever threw a pitch Saturday night.
The Dodgers reliever was warming up in the bullpen during the seventh inning of the Sept. 26 game against the San Francisco Giants when he suffered an injury. Treinen looked like he was in line to replace Kris Bubic after the sixth inning, but Brock Stewart ultimately came in instead and was given extra time to get loose.
After the game, manager Dave Roberts said Treinen had a shoulder injury, described it as a flare-up, and confirmed that his season is over. Roberts also said the Dodgers will have imaging done on Treinen’s shoulder.
The timing is a rough blow for a pitcher who was positioned to be part of the postseason roster as a veteran bullpen piece. It also leaves his future with the Dodgers unsettled, since he is set to become a free agent after this season.
Treinen is the Dodgers’ longest-tenured pitcher and has spent six years with the club, a run that has included multiple postseason appearances. He is also a three-time World Series champion, having joined the team in 2020, the same year the Dodgers ended their decades-long title drought.
This season, Treinen missed significant time because of elbow inflammation before returning in early September for the club’s postseason push.
His shoulder history has been a major part of his recent career, too. In April 2022, Treinen landed on the injured list with a right shoulder partial tear and chose rehab instead of season-ending surgery.
He came back in September, then returned to the injured list again. Even so, he pitched in two postseason games that year before eventually undergoing surgery to repair his labrum and rotator cuff.
That surgery kept him out for 10 months, and he came back to the Dodgers in 2024.
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