Jose Lobaton has played in just four games this month and he has not played at all in the last ten days.
Multiple reports this afternoon said the 31-year-old backup catcher was headed to the Disabled List with tendonitis in his left elbow while Pedro Severino was being called back up to take his place on the major league roster.
Severino posted a photo on Facebook from the airport as he prepared to depart for San Francisco, where he'll join the Washington Nationals in time for the second game of their four-game set with the Giants in AT&T Park.