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Indians catcher Roberto Perez hit his fifth home run of the season during Monday's 8-5 loss to the Tigers.

Perez hit the solo shot off Joakim Soria in the ninth inning. He finished the game 2 for 3 with two runs scored and one walk. Over his last nine games, Perez is 6 for 19 with one home run and three RBI.

A nagging neck issue has Indians catcher Yan Gomes sidelined again Monday for the start of a series against Detroit.

Gomes missed the game Friday with the problem and returned to the lineup Saturday, but has now been out the last two games.

His continued absence could further push back the search for his swing after a long absence due to injury earlier in the year. The 2014 surprise has just three hits in his last 26 at-bats and owns a slash line .204/.214/.301.

The Mets are not considering moving catcher Travis d'Arnaud to a new position despite his recent spate of injuries.

d'Arnaud missed 46 games this season with a broken pinkie, which was the result of a hit-by-pitch. But he also suffered a concussion last season when Alfonso Soriano hit him in the head with a backswing and broke his toe when a foul ball slammed off his foot in 2013. He is now dealing with a hyperextended elbow sustained while making a tag at the plate.

Terry Collins, however, is not about to move him elsewhere.

"I don't know why we would," he told the New York Daily News. "Number one, I don't know where he is going to go. Is he going to play third? I don't think so. Is he going to go play second, or center field or left field? If he plays, somebody doesn't."

Collins added that he hopes d'Arnaud can return to the lineup Tuesday in Milwaukee.

Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal recorded his fourth-career two-homer game in Sunday's 10-2 win over the Giants. Grandal hit a pair of solo bombs of Yusmeiro Petit in the third and fourth inning, giving him a total of 10 home runs on the year.

Grandal also singled in the game, as he went 3 for 5 with the two home runs. Before Sunday's offensive explosion, Grandal had been rather cold at the plate. The three hits he collected on Sunday match the total from his previous four starts.

Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud is not in the lineup for Sunday's game. 

D'Arnaud left Saturday's game after suffering a hyperextended elbow while making a tag at the plate. 

Kevin Plawecki gets the start behind the plate for just the second time in the last six games and third in the last nine. 

Mets catcher Travis d'Arnaud exited Saturday's game in the sixth inning after suffering an apparent arm injury while attempting to tag Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski on a sacrifice fly. The Mets announced that d'Arnaud suffered a left elbow injury. X-rays were negative and he is day-to-day with a hyperextended elbow.  

With Pierzynski on third base, Pedro Ciriaco hit a fly ball to left field, and Michael Cuddyer's throw came up the line to d'Arnaud, at the same time Pierzynski headed home. 

d'Arnaud and Pierzynski were tangled up and the Mets catcher lay on the field for several minutes before leaving under his power and being replaced by Kevin Plawecki. 

d'Arnaud had recently returned from the disabled list after breaking his finger. He was 2-for-3 with a home run and three RBIs before leaving the game. 

Padres rookie catcher Austin Hedges is in the starting lineup against the Diamondbacks.

Hedges slammed his first career home run earlier this week. He's hitting .200 with a home run and a RBI in his last two games.

Indians catcher Yan Gomes, who has been dealing with a neck injury, is in the starting lineup for Saturday's game against the Rays.

Gomes injured his neck on Thursday against the Cubs and was forced to leave the game.

Gomes is hitting .211 with two home runs and six RBI in 90 at-bats this season.

Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco will have hip surgery in New York on June 29, per the Cincinnati Inquirer. 

Mesoraco has been battling the injury all season and got shut down on his most recent minor league rehab assignment. 

The surgery appears to be season ending. Mesoraco said he'd be able to do his offseason work on schedule.

"It's disappointing," Mesoraco said, per MLB.com. "I've been trying so long to get it better and get it to the point where I can play, that at this point there's just nothing else that we can do. I feel good about getting it done and moving on to next season."

Diamondbacks catcher Oscar Hernandez, who began a minor-league rehab assignment on Tuesday, is expected to join the Major League roster when he is ready to be activated from the disabled list, according to FoxSports Arizona.

Hernandez, on the DL with a broken bone in his hand, was a Rule 5 pick by the Diamondbacks this offseason. The Diamondbacks would need to keep him on the active roster to avoid losing him back to the Rays. 

Hernandez has not seen any big-league action this season, after undergoing surgery to repair the bone at the beginning of spring training. He has one hit in eight at-bats through his first three rehab games with Class A Kane County.