It’s prob­a­bly safe to say that no Rock­ies play­er wants to bid 2020 good­bye more than out­field­er David Dahl.

Com­ing off an all-star sea­son in 2019, hopes were high that Dahl would become a force in Colorado’s line­up, but a left shoul­der injury that has both­ered him since Jan­u­ary final­ly land­ed him on the 45-day injured list Wednes­day, end­ing his sea­son with six games to go.

Dahl said that because he’s spent so much of his career being injured, he decid­ed not to report the injury when he began throw­ing in January.

“I fig­ured that I’d been on the (IL) a lot, and I need­ed to fig­ure this thing out on my own and push through this,” Dahl said.

But that plan back­fired and now Dahl, who said he feels a sharp pain in his shoul­der, espe­cial­ly when he throws, is sched­uled to meet with Dr. Jef­fery Dugas, an ortho­pe­dic sur­geon and sports med­i­cine spe­cial­ist in Birm­ing­ham, Ala. on Mon­day. Tests will be per­formed to see what’s caus­ing Dahl’s shoul­der pain.

To fill Dahl’s spot on the ros­ter, the Rock­ies select­ed the con­tract of right-hand­ed pitch­er Tom­my Doyle from their alter­nate train­ing site.

Dahl, 26, has been plagued by injuries and has nev­er been able to play a full big-league sea­son to show­case his con­sid­er­able talents.

“I’m real­ly frus­trat­ed. Obvi­ous­ly, stuff keeps hap­pen­ing,” he said. “I feel like I put the work in and I work hard. Hope­ful­ly, good things will hap­pen even­tu­al­ly. You’ve just got to keep going and get through it.

“Because I know can be a good play­er. I know I’ve had suc­cess while I’ve been up here. It’s a mat­ter of avail­abil­i­ty and being out there on the field.  But I’ve got to real­ly sit down the off­sea­son and kind of fig­ure out what I need to do as far as fig­ur­ing out my body.”

Dahl appeared in a career-high 100 games last sea­son, hit­ting .302 with 16 home runs and 61 RBIs but a high-ankle sprain end­ed his sea­son on Aug. 3. Dahl was excit­ed about 2020 but said that he believes the shoul­der pain might have led to two bouts with oblique sore­ness, one that kept him out of action dur­ing sum­mer camp and one that land­ed him on the injured list on Aug. 19.

“I think with the way my shoul­der was feel­ing I was start­ing to com­pen­sate for it,” he said. “And I start­ed get­ting some oblique issues.”

When Dahl went on the IL, he told the team about his shoul­der injury and he received a cor­ti­sone shot, that Dahl said, “didn’t real­ly work.”

“So I just kept try­ing to play through it, with the play­off push,” he said. “I was real­ly, real­ly try­ing. But you know, at the end of the day, I was real­ly hurt­ing. I was (stink­ing) and I was hurt­ing the team more than help­ing when I was out there.”

Dahl played in 24 games but had just 99 plate appear­ances. He hit .183 (17-for-93) with no home runs, two dou­bles and two triples.

“This has been an unset­tling year for David, with the shut­down in March and then the re-start,” man­ag­er Bud Black said. “I think so many play­ers were putting ini­tial pres­sure on them­selves to pro­duce num­bers, know­ing that it was short­ened season.”

Dahl’s injury his­to­ry is, unfor­tu­nate­ly, a big part of his resume. He missed the entire 2017 sea­son with a stress reac­tion in a rib that also cre­at­ed a back issue. In 2018 — before his nine home runs and 27 RBIs in Sep­tem­ber helped pro­pel Col­orado to the post­sea­son — he frac­tured his right foot when he fouled a pitch off it on May 30 and didn’t return to play until Aug. 5.

The injury bug bit Dahl in the minors, too. He missed most of his 2013 sea­son in Class A with a ham­string injury and had to have his spleen removed in 2015 after he col­lid­ed with a team­mate while chas­ing a fly­ball dur­ing a Double‑A game.

“It’s just been kind of freaky things, just kind of bad luck,” Dahl said. “I’ve just got to fig­ure this part of it out. Next year, I’ll be 27. You’ve got to be avail­able to play.”

Oberg under­goes surgery. Black also announced that right-hand­ed reliev­er Scott Oberg under­went surgery on Wednes­day for tho­racic out­let syn­drome in hopes of pre­vent­ing blood clots in his right arm that have shut down his sea­son three times in the last four years. Black said he hopes that Oberg will be able to par­tic­i­pate in spring train­ing in 2021.

On Deck
Rock­ies RHP Chi Chi Gon­za­lez (0–2, 7.53) at Giants TBD
1:45 p.m. Thurs­day, Ora­cle Park
TV: AT&T SportsNet
Radio: KOA 850 AM/94.1 AM

Gon­za­lez will make his final start of the sea­son and wants to make a strong impres­sion as he looks toward 2021. The right-han­der is com­ing off a loss at Los Ange­les where the Dodgers reached him for three runs on four hits, includ­ing a solo home run, across five innings. Gon­za­lez is 0–2 with a 5.54 ERA in three career starts vs. the Giants. In his only pre­vi­ous start at Ora­cle Park, he pitched five innings, giv­ing up three runs on six hits in the Giants’ 4–2 victory.

Trend­ing: Left field­er Raimel Tapia had bat­ted lead­off in 29 games this sea­son (enter­ing Wednes­day night’s game), bat­ting .291 with three dou­bles, one triple, one home run, sev­en RBIs and a .344 on-base percentage.

At issue: Sec­ond base­man Ryan McMa­hon, now play­ing third base because Nolan Are­na­do is on the injured list, has a 36.5 strike­out per­cent­age, which is the fifth-high­est in the majors and the high­est in the Nation­al League.

Pitch­ing Probables
Fri­day (dou­ble­head­er): Rock­ies RHP Anto­nio Sen­za­tela (5–2, 3.13) at Dia­mond­backs RHP Zac Gallen (2–2, 3.00), 4:40 p.m., ATTRM / Rock­ies TBD at Dia­mond­backs RHP Tay­lor Clarke (2–0, 6.51), 7:40 p.m., ATTRM
Sat­ur­day: Rock­ies TBD at Dia­mond­backs RHP Luke Weaver (1–8, 6.51), 6:10 p.m., ATTM
Sun­day: Rock­ies TBD at Dia­mond­backs LHP Madi­son Bum­gar­ner (0–4, 7.36). 1:10 p.m., ATTRM