Shortly after fouling ball off his right foot last month in Atlanta, Travis Jankowski joked with an opposing player that he thought he broke his foot.

A second CT scan on Sunday confirmed that fear: Jankowski will miss at least another six weeks with a fracture in his navicular bone.

“They could see a fracture they couldn’t see earlier,” Padres manager Andy Green said Monday afternoon. “Travis, needless to say, is bummed by the news. It takes time to heal. From what I’ve been told, that’s a bone that doesn’t get a lot of blood flow so it doesn’t heal very quickly.”

Jankowski was initially diagnosed with a bone bruise, an ailment that Green thought was impeding his production even as he attempt to remain off the disabled list after fouling the ball off his foot.


He was hitting .160/.263/.180 with one extra-base hit, two steals and 21 strikeouts in 17 games.

A more significant diagnosis, Green acknowledged, could mean for an even more difficult time returning to the version of Jankowski who swiped 30 bases a year ago.

“Ninety percent of his game is his ability to run and make things happen,” Green said. “It’s how he survives offensively. It’s how he thrives defensively. It’s what he does on the bases that makes him a dynamic baseball player, so yeah, it’s tougher on him because of what he does.”

Weaver’s adjustment

At 6-foot-7, Jered Weaver sliding three to four inches from the third base side of the rubber toward first base doesn’t look like a major adjustment.


It is if you’re accustomed to the extreme third base side of the rubber as Weaver was.

Pitching coach Darren Balsley suggested the change going into Sunday’s start – the best of his season to date (6 IP, 1 ER).

“Jered’s big thing is executing and being able to get to his glove side – down and away to righties and in to lefties when he has to,” Balsley said. “He was having a little bit of difficulty getting the ball there. … “I was pleased to see that he was willing to make a change, a slight change, and take it into a major league ball game. He’d never done that before. I was pretty cool.”

Balsley noted that Greg Maddux, among other veterans, had made similar moves on the rubber late in their careers. The veteran pitching coach was quick to note that that likely wasn’t the only reason for Weaver’s turnaround, but the 34-year-old right-hander acknowledged that it certainly helped.


“I didn’t have to work so hard to get it over,” Weaver said.

TODAY’S LINEUPS

Here is the #Brewers lineup as they hit the road to take on the Padres tonight at 9:10pm CT! #ThisIsMyCrew #MILatSD pic.twitter.com/pDe4mHFy6h — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) May 15, 2017

Luis Perdomo gets the nod for the series opener vs. Brewers at 7:10pm tonight! Here's the full lineup: pic.twitter.com/bOb4e2LJSO — San Diego Padres (@Padres) May 15, 2017

ON DECK | Brewers (21-17) at Padres (14-25)

Game 1: 7:10 p.m. Monday


Brewers RHP Chase Anderson (2-0, 2.97 ERA)

The 29-year-old has allowed six earned runs over his last 9 1/3 innings. He is 3-1 with a 3.60 ERA, 21 strikeouts and a 1.37 WHIP in six starts (35 IP) against the padres.

Padres RHP Luis Perdomo (0-0, 4.13 ERA)

He struck out a season-high seven batters in his last start, his third straight of at least six innings. Perdomo hasn’t allowed more than three runs in his last four starts. He was 0-1 with a 5.19 ERA in two starts last year vs. Milwaukee.

Up next

Tuesday: Brewers RHP Jimmy Nelson (1-2, 3.99) vs. Padres LHP Clayton Richard (2-4, 4.34), 7:10 p.m.

Brewers RHP Jimmy Nelson (1-2, 3.99) vs. Padres LHP Clayton Richard (2-4, 4.34), 7:10 p.m. Wednesday: Brewers RHP Matt Garza (1-0, 2.55) vs. Padres RHP Jhoulys Chacin (4-3, 5.12), 7:10 p.m.

Brewers RHP Matt Garza (1-0, 2.55) vs. Padres RHP Jhoulys Chacin (4-3, 5.12), 7:10 p.m. Thursday: Brewers RHP Zach Davies (3-2, 5.60) vs. Padres RHP Trevor Cahill (3-2, 3.27), 12:40 p.m.


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