Dodgers left-hander Brett Anderson spent more than five months rehabilitating from surgery to repair a herniated disk in his lower back, only to have his long-awaited return last all of one horrendous inning in Sunday’s 11-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Anderson gave up five runs and five hits, two of them home runs, in a 30-pitch half-inning in which the Pirates batted around and dropped the Dodgers in a hole far too deep for them to climb out of.
Adding injury to insult, Anderson suffered a mild sprain of his left wrist when he banged his hand on the ground after a lunging attempt to stop Adam Frazier’s chopper up the middle after five runs had scored.