{"id":665340,"date":"2026-04-05T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T22:23:14","slug":"diamondbacks-carlos-santana-exits-vs-braves-with-groin-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665340\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; Carlos Santana exits vs. Braves with groin tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Carlos Santana exited Sunday\u2019s game against the Atlanta Braves with right groin tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Santana took a pitch in the second inning and bent over in discomfort. After a conversation with manager Torey Lovullo and the athletic trainer, Santana stayed in the game initially. He floated a single into left field but did not look comfortable running to first base.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks subbed Ildemaro Vargas in to pinch run and played first base. Jose Fernandez, who played first base on Saturday, started as the designated hitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Santana has had a tough start to his D-backs tenure, entering Sunday 1-for-23 before his single off Braves starter Martin Perez.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter is 39 years old and signed a one-year deal with Arizona this offseason to provide quality defense and veteran leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has already dealt with a number of early-season injuries, including outfielder Jordan Lawlar (broken right wrist) and first baseman Pavin Smith (left elbow inflammation). The D-backs don\u2019t have another player on the 40-man roster who is not already in the major leagues or on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Santana has been very durable throughout his 17-year career, as the only time he\u2019s been on the injured list over the past decade was in 2022 for only 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Carlos Santana exited Sunday\u2019s game against the Atlanta Braves with right groin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-665340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116354444941189364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665340","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=665340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}