Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia makes early exit…
DENVER –– It appeared the altitude received to Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia on Tuesday evening.
That, or perhaps the smash burger he had for lunch.
Feduccia was compelled to depart the staff’s 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday evening in the underside of the seventh inning, after showing to develop into in poor health behind the plate and throwing up in the dugout.
“He’s got this stomach bug or food poisoning, something like that,” supervisor Dave Roberts said afterward. “He was scuffling all game. So finally –– he went as long as he could go.”
Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Hunter Feduccia and reduction pitcher Edwin Diaz have fun after a sport against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on Monday, August 17, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. (This asset – including all textual content, audio and imagery – is supplied by Imagn Images. GWN Connec) IMAGN IMAGES via GWN Connect
Indeed, Feduccia was catching his second-straight sport in this week’s collection, and fourth in the last 5 days, when he finally gave approach with one out in the seventh.
After catching a slider from reliever Edgardo Henriquez for a strikeout to start the inning, Feduccia doubled over behind the plate and seemed like he was about to retch.
He rapidly raced off the sector and back down the dugout stairs, but left behind a path that required a stadium employee to later mop up close to the staff’s third-base bench.
“He gave us a great effort,” Roberts said, after Ben Rortvedt changed Feduccia to full the sport.
Feduccia was half of a second-straight resurgent efficiency from the Dodgers’ offense, drawing two early walks in their eventual series-clinching win.
The victory was also keyed by Shohei Ohtani, who adopted Feduccia’s first free go with his thirtieth home run of the season in the third; Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edman and Teoscar Hernández, who each had two hits and mixed for three RBIs; and even Kyle Tucker, who snapped his career-worst 0-for-26 hitless streak with an RBI double in the fourth.
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers is congratulated by Hunter Feduccia after hitting a two-run home run against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. (2026 Getty Images) Getty Images
Just as important, however, was a five-inning, four-run start from Eric Lauer (a passing grade at mile-high altitude) and 4 innings of two-run ball from the bullpen (punctuated by a four-out save from Tanner Scott).
Feduccia was essential to that effort early, displaying his growing consolation stage with the Dodgers’ big-league pitching employees.
The former unheralded prospect –– who was traded by the staff at last yr’s deadline, then reacquired this yr to bolster the staff’s banged-up catching depth –– has develop into the staff’s main backstop currently, beginning for the ninth time in the last 14 video games on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, however, he’ll get a deserved break.
“I think we’re just trying to hydrate him,” Roberts said postgame. “He’ll be down tomorrow.”
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