The Arizona Diamondbacks misplaced two key gamers throughout Saturday’s sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies in Phoenix.
Beginning pitcher Zac Gallen exited the competition within the fifth with an obvious groin damage, leaving one inning after All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte departed with an obvious left leg damage.
Gallen appeared to tweak one thing after he dodged Bryce Harper’s run-scoring groundout throughout the mound that lower Arizona’s result in 2-1.
Diamondbacks trainers and supervisor Torey Lovullo got here out to look at Gallen, who promptly exited with out throwing a warmup pitch. Gallen left after permitting one run on 5 hits over 4 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out three.
The precise-hander entered Saturday 9-5 with a 3.75 ERA for Arizona, which is 15-5 for the reason that All-Star break.
Marte was damage whereas overlaying second base on Garrett Stubbs’ two-out double within the high of the fourth. Stubbs slid headfirst into the bag and rolled over Marte’s decrease left leg as Marte utilized a late tag.
Marte remained down for a number of seconds as a coach and Lovullo attended to him. Marte was in seen ache as he stood up and gingerly retreated to the dugout amid MVP chants from the Arizona crowd.
Kevin Newman took over for Marte, who hit his thirtieth dwelling run of the season within the first inning and walked within the second. Marte additionally has 81 RBIs this yr and is batting .299.
–Subject Stage Media
