Dodgers activate Tony Gonsolin

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers activated right-handed pitcher Tony Gonsolin from the injured list and optioned right-handed pitcher Matt Sauer.

Gonsolin, 30, returns after missing all of the 2024 season and 30 games in 2025 recovering from Tommy John surgery. He made 20 starts in 2023 prior to the season-ending injury, going 8-5 with 4.98 ERA. He was an All-Star in 2022 after posting a 12-1 record with a 2.14 ERA in 24 games. He has been with the Dodgers five seasons and he is 34-11 with a 3.19 ERA in 79 games (71 starts). He was drafted in the ninth round of the 2016 First Year Player Draft out of St. Mary’s College.

Sauer, 26, recorded his first career win last night, turning in five innings of one-run ball against the Marlins. He is 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA in 6.2 innings this season. Last season, he made his Major League debut in 2024 as a member of the Kansas City Royals and went 0-0 with a 7.71 ERA in 14 games. He was originally drafted by the Yankees in the second round of the 2017 First Year Player Draft out Ernest Righetti High School (Santa Maria, Calif.).