The Philadelphia Phillies reinstated All-Star left-hander Jesus Luzardo from the 15-day injured list prior to Sunday’s critical game against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n
Right-hander Jose Urquidy was designated for assignment by the Phillies (87-74), who can clinch their fifth straight postseason berth on Sunday afternoon as they face the American League East champion Rays (98-63) in the regular-season finale for both teams.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia, which has lost four games in a row, holds a one-game lead over the Arizona Diamondbacks (86-75) for the final wild-card spot in the National League. The Phillies need to either win on Sunday or have the Diamondbacks lose to the host San Diego Padres in order to clinch a postseason berth.<\/p>\n
Luzardo, 28, was placed on the injured list Sept. 15, retroactive to Sept. 12, with left shoulder inflammation.<\/p>\n
After a breakout 2025, Luzardo is having his best season to date in 2026. The first-time All-Star is 14-5 with a 2.87 ERA across 29 starts. He already has set a career high with 221 strikeouts against 52 walks.<\/p>\n
In eight MLB seasons with the then-Oakland Athletics (2019-21), Miami Marlins (2021-24) and Phillies, Luzardo is 55-46 with a 3.92 ERA and two saves in 166 appearances (150 starts). He has 996 strikeouts in all, eclipsing 200 in three of the past four seasons.<\/p>\n
Urquidy, 31, pitched to a 3.68 ERA without a decision in two appearances with the Phillies after being claimed off waivers from the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies reinstated All-Star left-hander Jesus Luzardo from the 15-day injured list prior to Sunday’s critical game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226],"class_list":["post-815795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117344918773809148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815795","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=815795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}