WASHINGTON \u2014 The Philadelphia Phillies placed ace Zack Wheeler on the 15-day injured list Saturday with a blood clot in his right arm.<\/p>\n
Dave Dombrowski, the president of baseball operations for the Phillies, said after a 2-0 loss at Washington that Wheeler had been diagnosed with a “right upper extremity blood clot.”<\/p>\n
“There’s not a lot that we can say on it at this time,” said Dombrowski, who commended doctors for finding the clot. “It could have been a much more trying situation than it is.”<\/p>\n
Phillies head athletic trainer Paul Buchheit said Wheeler had been feeling better after some right shoulder soreness caused him to push back a start earlier this month. But that changed Friday.<\/p>\n
“He felt a little heaviness,” Buchheit said. “So, the doctors here were great in helping to diagnose and expedite that diagnosis this morning.”<\/p>\n
Buchheit said he didn’t think Wheeler’s present condition had anything to do with his previous stiffness. He said there is a wide variety of treatments available, but he declined to get into specifics.<\/p>\n
Dombrowski said Wheeler would be evaluated further in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Wheeler pitched for the NL East leaders on Friday and was limited to five innings for the second consecutive start. The right-hander allowed two runs and four hits at Washington.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Wheeler, who made his third All-Star team last month, is 10-5 with a 2.71 ERA in 24 starts this season. He has a major league-high 195 strikeouts in 149 2\/3 innings. He has thrown at least 192 innings in three of the previous four seasons.<\/p>\n
Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber said it was most important to get Wheeler back healthy.<\/p>\n
“It’s a scary situation, right? … Just want to get him back in here and hear from him,” Schwarber said. “Hopefully it’s not going to be too serious. Get him in here and get him healthy.<\/p>\n
“You know, baseball is baseball, and when it comes to someone’s health like that, we need him healthy first. You know, he’s got a family, so we want to get him feeling good for them and get him back to speed whenever we can.”<\/p>\n
The Phillies will activate right-hander Aaron Nola from the injured list to start Sunday against the Nationals. Philadelphia planned to go to a six-man rotation with Nola’s return, but instead will stick with a conventional five-man approach.<\/p>\n
“Because we’re adding Nola tomorrow, everybody’s getting sort of getting an extra day,” manager Rob Thomson said. “Then we have an off day [Thursday], and we get another extra day. We’re in good shape and that’s why you have depth.”<\/p>\n
“We don’t know the timeline,” Thomson said. “I’m thinking a lot about Zack and his family, because it’s not a hamstring injury or something like that. But I feel good about the depth that we have. If we have to go to a sixth, it could be [prospect Andrew] Painter. It could be somebody else. We just have to carry on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Philadelphia Phillies placed ace Zack Wheeler on the 15-day injured list Saturday with a blood…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-152527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115042831873135002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}