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Jordan Lawlar discusses Diamondbacks call up, MLB future<\/p>\n

After compiling a hearty .336\/.413\/.579 in 37 games in Reno, Lawlar has renewed career focus after rejoining the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

Right-hander Justin Martinez tossed a scoreless inning in an Arizona Complex League game on Saturday, May 17. His fastball registered in the upper-90s, a tick or two down from its usual range, but better than he was exhibiting before landing on the injured list earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The club is trying to determine what will come next, but manager Torey Lovullo made it sound like the most likely outcome would be for Martinez to make another rehab appearance, likely with Triple-A Reno, on Tuesday, May 20.<\/p>\n

Martinez, who is on the IL with right shoulder inflammation, threw 10 pitches and retired all three batters he faced, striking out one, against the San Francisco Giants<\/a>\u2019 complex league team. Lovullo said Martinez threw 10 more pitches in the bullpen after his inning.<\/p>\n

According to a rival scout, Martinez threw one fastball at 97 mph and the rest at 98-99 mph. That is not quite the Martinez of old \u2014 he averaged more than 100 mph with his heater last season \u2014 but is far more encouraging than the 95 mph he averaged on April 30, his final outing before landing on the IL.<\/p>\n

Lovullo did not rule out the possibility of Martinez returning in time for next week\u2019s Dodgers series, but he seemed to suggest the team was leaning toward one more minor league outing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s getting very close,\u201d Lovullo said.<\/p>\n

Rockies at Diamondbacks<\/a>,\u00a05:10 p.m., Cox, Ch. 34<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks RHP Zac Gallen (3-5, 4.59) vs. Rockies RHP German Marquez (1-6, 8.27).<\/p>\n

At Chase Field:\u00a0Gallen is coming off a so-so appearance as far as the numbers go, with four runs and 10 hits allowed in 5 \u2154 innings of a loss to the Dodgers on May 11. But he had two very good starts prior to that, and will have a shot at another one against a struggling team in the Rockies. Gallen is 7-1 with a 2.59 earned run average in 15 career starts against Colorado, his best numbers against an NL West opponent. He also has 105 strikeouts to 24 walks against the Rockies. … Marquez’s best years with the Rockies appear to be behind him. He was a regular part of the starting rotation for six seasons until the 2023 season, when he had to have Tommy John surgery. Marquez made only five starts in 2023 and 2024 combined, and is off to a rough start in 2025. He is 6-6 with a 4.38 ERA in his career against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

Coming up<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 18:\u00a0At Chase Field, 1:10 p.m.,\u00a0Diamondbacks RHP Merrill Kelly (4-2, 3.71) vs. Rockies RHP Chase Dollander (2-4, 6.88).<\/p>\n

Monday, May 19:\u00a0At Los Angeles, 7:10 p.m.,\u00a0Diamondbacks RHP Brandon Pfaadt (6-3, 3.73) vs. Dodgers RHP Landon Knack (2-1, 5.89).<\/p>\n

Tuesday, May 20: At Los Angeles, 7:10 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Ryne Nelson (1-1, 5.13) vs. Dodgers RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (5-3, 2.12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Lawlar discusses Diamondbacks call up, MLB future After compiling a hearty .336\/.413\/.579 in 37 games in Reno,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[290,146,22,4314,646,5,167,52,38,39,1076,2118,162,264,651,289,57,702,4,306,319,292,6989,169,300,316,301,168,844,66,185,317,6985,1826,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-35030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","11":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-colorado","15":"tag-colorado-rockies","16":"tag-diamondbacks","17":"tag-dodgers","18":"tag-francisco","19":"tag-gallen","20":"tag-giants","21":"tag-justin","22":"tag-justin-martinez","23":"tag-los","24":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","25":"tag-martinez","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-national","28":"tag-national-sports","29":"tag-new","30":"tag-new-visitors-az","31":"tag-news","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-positive","35":"tag-rockies","36":"tag-san","37":"tag-san-francisco-giants","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-visitors","41":"tag-zac","42":"tag-zac-gallen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114525933793998335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}