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Padres infielder Logan Forsythe came off the disabled list in style Monday against the Braves, going 2 for 2 with a home run and a walk in a 7-6 win.

Forsythe, who was on the DL with plantar fasciitis, was playing in his first game of the season.

Padres infielder Logan Forsythe was activated from the 60-day disabled list and placed in the starting lineup Monday against the Braves. Forsythe has been out all season due to plantar fasciitis, but he appeared in eight games on his rehab assignment, batting .360 for Triple-A Tucson.

Jedd Gyorko is expected to be placed on the disabled list to make room for Forythe on the active roster. 

If Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa is feeling better in the next few days, he will likely resume baseball activities. Espinosa had a cortisone injection Thursday in his fractured right wrist, and the team is waiting to see how he responds before moving forward, according to The Washington Times. 

"From my understanding, the break and the little chip that’s separated from it is not in a position where it can cause any more irritation," manager Davey Johnson said Saturday, without putting a specific timeline on Espinosa's resumption of activities. "And the major bone has probably had enough time to calm down. So hopefully he won’t have a whole lot of discomfort, no weakness in the hand. He was playing through it pretty good.”

Johnson also reiterated that Espinosa's torn rotator cuff is not a concern, and will not have any impact on when he can return from the disabled list. The wrist remains his only concern, after he opted to avoid surgery on the shoulder.

"The shoulder, he did a lot of exercising to strengthen all the muscles around the rotator cuff," Johnson said. "The doctors decided to go that route instead. Maybe we’re past it. I don’t know. That will be something we have to look at in the offseason."

Espinosa may not return to the majors when he comes off the disabled list. 

Nationals shortstop Danny Espinosa had an MRI on his fractured right wrist as well as his left shoulder, neither of which revealed anything surprising. In fact, the MRI on his shoulder showed that the torn left rotator cuff he suffered last season is not a big problem.

While the team did not go into much detail, MLB.com described it as just "a little injury," indicating that it has healed well without surgery.

Espinosa is expected to resume baseball activities in four to five days after having a cortisone shot in his wrist. 

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa received a cortisone injection into his injured wrist, manager Davey Johnson told reporters Thursday. He should be cleared to resume baseball activities in 4-5 days.

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa visited with a specialist Wednesday to undergo MRIs on his right wrist and left shoulder. However, general manager Mike Rizzo didn't share the results with reporters Wednesday afternoon.

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa will see a specialist in Baltimore for his fractured right wrist after being placed on the disabled list Tuesday. According to MLB.com, surgery is not an option for either his wrist or his torn left rotator cuff, and he will just rest while on the disabled list.

The team will also likely send him to the minors once he's healthy to fix his swingt. Espinosa is batting .158 with three home runs.

"We finally put Danny on the disabled list to clean up all the wrist questions that we had, and for him to rehab and then go down to the minor leagues, with a healthy wrist, go down there and work on the mental side of hitting," general manager Mike Rizzo told MLB.com. "[We want to] see if we can get him back here because he's a guy that we need -- that's going to be a guy that we're going to count on some time this year. So we want to get him right."

The team called up top prospect Anthony Rendon to replace Espinosa on the active roster. 

Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday, as his right wrist injury continues to bother him.

Espinosa has been dealing with bone chips and a fracture in his right wrist for the last few weeks, but was planning to play through it before being placed on the disabled list.

Espinosa has struggled all season, batting just .158 with a .465 OPS. He has also been dealing with a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder. His timeline is not yet known. 

Amazingly, Danny Espinosa is still rostered in 38 percent of leagues, to which I can only ask: Why?

As if attempting to play through a torn rotator cuff wasn't destructive enough to his batting average, he's back from a week off to rest his aching wrist. And why does it ache? There's a piece of bone floating around in there. Ouch.

For some injuries, "rub some dirt on it, kid" just doesn't apply, and I'm afraid Espinosa might be toughing it out to his own detriment. The shoulder and wrist are usually what make or break a swing, and neither is right for him -- a hitter who was destined to hit .240 even if completely healthy.

I'm not expecting much from the Nationals second baseman the rest of the way, and neither should you.

Padres infielder Logan Forsythe went 0 for 2 in the first game of his rehab assignment with Triple-A Tuscon Wednesday. He has yet to play with the Padres this season after being placed on the disabled list with plantar fasciitis during spring training.