Dodgers right-hander River Ryan to have Tommy John surgery

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Dodgers right-hander River Ryan to have Tommy John surgery

2024-08-14 07:23 Last Updated At：07:30

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander River Ryan will require Tommy John surgery for the elbow injury that he suffered Saturday while making his fourth major league start.

The Dodgers announced Tuesday that Ryan would have the ligament-replacement operation next week. The team had already said Ryan would miss the rest of this season. The surgery will likely force him to miss most if not all of 2025, as well.

“We were holding out hope,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said prior to Tuesday’s game in Milwaukee. “But unfortunately, he’s got to get the surgery.

“But I think, even when you talk to River, he’s been through trials and knows how to handle it mentally,” Roberts said. “He’s going to miss being with the guys. But this is surgery that they’ve got a pretty good handle on it, and so we expect a full recovery. It’s just really disappointing.”

The 25-year-old Ryan went 1-0 with a 1.33 ERA in four starts for Los Angeles this season. He was 0-0 with a 2.22 ERA in eight minor league starts.

After the Dodgers’ 4-1 victory at Pittsburgh on Saturday, Ryan said he started to feel tightness in his forearm in the third inning. He was removed from the game in the fifth.

Right-hander Walker Buehler, who's been on the injured list since June 19 with right hip inflammation, is scheduled to be activated and start Wednesday against the Brewers.

“We’ve got Walker tomorrow and Jack (Flaherty) is going on the day game (Thursday),” Roberts said.

Buehler, 1-4 with a 5.84 ERA in eight starts this season with the Dodgers, made three rehab starts at Triple-A Oklahoma City during this stint on the injured list. In his most recent minor league start, Buehler allowed one run on one hit in 5 1/3 innings, striking out five and walking three.

Buehler missed all of the 2023 major league season recovering from his second Tommy John surgery. Prior to being activated in early May this season, he last pitched for the Dodgers on June 10, 2022, against the Giants.

Despite a rash of injuries, especially to the pitching staff, the Dodgers entered Tuesday tied with Baltimore and Cleveland at 70-49 for the best record in the majors.

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Violence-hit Pakistan locks down the capital for an Asian security meeting

2024-10-15 16:53 Last Updated At：17:00

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Shaken by multiple militant attacks, Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several nations arrive for an Asian security group meeting.

A three-day holiday started Monday in normally bustling Islamabad and the nearby garrison city of Rawalpindi, and Pakistan has deployed troops and blocked key roads, making it difficult even for ambulances to pass through. Some doctors asked police to remove barricades so that they could go to hospitals, but were instead asked to take longer routes.

The main event of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will be held Wednesday, when leaders and officials discuss how to boost their security cooperation and economic ties. The group was founded in 2001 by China and Russia to counter Western alliances. Other members include Iran, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Militants in recent weeks have killed dozens of people in multiple attacks in restive northwestern and southwestern Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. Security experts say militants have limited capacity to strike in Islamabad.

Pakistan often blames the outlawed Pakistani Taliban, who have sanctuaries in neighboring Afghanistan, for the violence. Afghanistan’s Taliban government says it does not allow anyone to use its soil for attacks against any country.

Two Chinese engineers were killed on Oct. 6 in a suicide bombing outside the airport in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province. The attack was claimed by a separatist group.

In the past, ordinary Pakistanis used to line up on both sides of the main roads to welcome any dignitaries visiting the country, but authorities said they had to take harsh security measures because of fears of militant attacks. Only state media will be allowed to cover the meetings.

Among those attending were China’s Premier Li Qiang, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref and the prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Mongolia.