PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks lost another starting pitcher to injury on Saturday, placing right-hander Michael Soroka on the 15-day injured list with a strained right glute.<\/p>\n
Arizona also put utilityman Jordan Lawlar back on the IL with a strained right hamstring, which occurred in Friday\u2019s victory over Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Both players had MRIs on Saturday and will be sidelined at least four weeks, Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said before Saturday\u2019s game against the Twins.<\/p>\n
Soroka left Friday\u2019s game after throwing some warmup pitches before the second inning. The 28-year-old was having the best season of any Arizona starter, going 8-3 with a 3.07 ERA in 15 starts.<\/p>\n
Soroka joins right-hander Ryne Nelson, sidelined earlier this week with a sprained UCL in his pitching arm, as well as Corbin Burnes, who had Tommy John surgery last year and suffered a setback in rehab. The unrelated injury, a strained muscle in his teres major muscle, will keep Burnes out until September at the earliest.<\/p>\n
Lawlar was removed from Friday\u2019s game after beating out an infield single. He had just returned last week from a two-month stay on the injured list after suffering a fractured right wrist when he was hit by a pitch from Atlanta\u2019s Osvaldo Bido. The Diamondbacks\u2019 first-round pick in 2021, who has battled injuries through most of his professional career, was batting .316 with a home run in 38 at-bats.<\/p>\n
The Diamondbacks recalled left-handed pitcher Philip Abner and utilityman Tim Tawa from Triple-A Reno to replace the injured players. Both were up with the club earlier this season.<\/p>\n
With the injuries to two starters, Arizona is currently carrying 10 relievers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks lost another starting pitcher to injury on Saturday, placing right-hander Michael Soroka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,97,38,91172,543,5860,822,4,1954,9501,48052,9496,83120,5938,4622,5971,638],"class_list":["post-731321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-arizonadiamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks-soroka-lawlar","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-mike-soroka","tag-minnesota","tag-mlb","tag-osvaldo-bido","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-philip-abner","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40774-ap-arizona-sports-only","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-tim-tawa","tag-tommy-john","tag-torey-lovullo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116785301670003480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731321","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=731321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}