The Phillies on Tuesday reinstated Orion Kerkering from the 15-day injured list ahead of their game in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Kyle Backhus was optioned to Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
Kerkering, 25, had been out with a right hamstring strain suffered in spring training. He allowed one run in four innings over four rehab appearances in Triple A.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old right-handed reliever made 69 appearances with an 8-4 record, four saves, 19 holds and a 3.30 ERA in 60 innings pitched last season for the Phillies, his third season in the big leagues. Kerkering was a fifth-round pick of the Phillies in the 2022 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n
Backhus, 27, had a 9.00 ERA in four relief appearances covering three innings. The 6-3, side-arming lefty was acquired in December. He had one bad outing on opening day against Texas but held batters scoreless over 2.2 innings since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies on Tuesday reinstated Orion Kerkering from the 15-day injured list ahead of their game in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40,185,10665],"class_list":{"0":"post-669206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","13":"tag-phillies","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-stories-trt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116365965589683324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669206","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=669206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}