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Dodgers' Turner to emergency room with leg infection

LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner is in the emergency room with what the team described as a pimple that went wrong.

On Sunday in New York, Turner reported feeling the pimple on his right leg. He was prescribed antibiotics. The expectation was it'd heal a bit over Monday's off day and he'd start tonight's game at Dodger Stadium without issue.

"And then it turned into something big," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said this afternoon.

When Turner arrived at the ballpark, Mattingly had him penciled in to start against Oakland ace Sonny Gray. He was then examined by the Dodgers' medical staff and then sent to the ER when it was determined the injury had worsened.