LOS ANGELES — The Arizona Diamondbacks introduced six roster strikes Tuesday earlier than a collection on the Los Angeles Dodgers, together with the returns of middle fielder Alek Thomas and catcher Gabriel Moreno off the 10-day injured record.
Arizona’s rotation took a success as Jordan Montgomery landed on the 15-day injured record with proper knee irritation, retroactive to June 29.
Arizona recalled right-handed pitcher Gavin Hollowell, optioned infielder Blaze Alexander and designated catcher Tucker Barnhart for task.
Alek Thomas is again
The Diamondbacks get their Gold Glove-caliber middle fielder again, as Thomas suffered a strained left hamstring in the course of the third sport of the season. He went on the IL again on April 1, and his return has been removed from linear. He performed three video games with Triple-A Reno in early Could, was shut right down to obtain a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection and slowly ramped again up.
Thomas performed 5 extra video games with Reno on his second rehab stint earlier than his return to the most important league crew.
The 2-time Gold Glove finalist had an enormous postseason for the Diamondbacks with 4 dwelling runs and a .734 OPS and entered his age 24 season with excessive expectations.
“It’s a complete completely different defensive dimension for us,” supervisor Torey Lovullo mentioned of his return. “He’s an elite defender. He can go on the market and run issues down nearly as good as anyone I’ve ever seen. I’ve been on this sport a very long time. Offensively, the at-bats had been coming alongside very properly.”
The D-backs elected to maintain their outfielders by optioning Alexander, thus Lovullo has loads of choices for every matchup and easing Thomas again in. He has not fairly found out the taking part in time, as Thomas won’t begin on daily basis at first as he eases in.
Thomas will bat eighth on Tuesday.
“It was a protracted course of,” Thomas mentioned. “I’m grateful to be right here proper now.”
Gabriel Moreno has minimal stint
Moreno went on the IL on June 22, caught in an Arizona Complicated League sport on Saturday and returns after a minimal 10-day IL stint.
The Diamondbacks elected to maintain Jose Herrera as his backup in favor of veteran Tucker Barnhart, who with out choices was let go.
Moreno will hit sixth on Tuesday.
Jordan Montgomery injured
What Montgomery known as the toughest season of his profession bought harder, as he turns into the newest Diamondbacks starter to hit the IL. Among the many 5 starters in a hypothetical wholesome rotation (Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly, Eduardo Rodriguez, Montgomery and Brandon Pfaadt), Pfaadt is now the one one to keep away from the IL this season.
Montgomery has not loved a constantly nice season after signing the day after Opening Day with a 6.44 ERA and 1.68 WHIP. He allowed eight runs (seven earned after a scoring change) in his final begin in opposition to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday.
“Montgomery simply had some proper proper patellar tendon irritation, and we simply decided that he was going to wish a while down,” Lovullo mentioned. “It was Saturday’s bullpen. … He was simply strolling again as much as the rubber to proceed his bullpen and he felt slightly discomfort, so he shut it down. I feel he was about 4 or 5 pitches wanting a full bullpen.”
Lovullo didn’t give a timeline however mentioned he doesn’t anticipate a protracted IL stint.
That opens one other spot within the rotation, as Montgomery was slated to pitch Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Prospect Cristian Mena was within the clubhouse in L.A., a part of what Lovullo known as the taxi squad on Tuesday. The supervisor mentioned there’s a poorly stored secret who will pitch on Wednesday.
Hollowell is a reliever the D-backs claimed off waivers from the Colorado Rockies on June 18. He has thrown 3.2 scoreless innings with Triple-A Reno for the reason that transfer.
Blaze Alexander despatched out
Lovullo talked about the D-backs had been one infielder robust final week, and Alexander get despatched again to Reno to clear area for Thomas.
Alexander is slashing .259/.328/.361 this season as a rookie. He earned beginning reps early with shortstop Geraldo Perdomo struggling a torn meniscus within the first week of the season and shortly confirmed a succesful bat.
Nevertheless, Alexander has dedicated six errors this season throughout three positions (one at second base, one at third base and 4 at shortstop).
“It was a troublesome dialog with Blaze this morning,” Lovullo mentioned. “We’re hopefully gonna get the very best model of Blaze down there, who’s going to proceed to develop and study to play all three infield positions, proceed to have very high quality at-bats and discover his approach again right here.”
On Sunday, Alexander had the go-ahead RBI-single within the seventh inning in Arizona’s 5-1 win over Oakland.
Lovullo mentioned Alexander will get lots of work at third base in Reno.