Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton got sick Saturday while playing in the extreme heat that covered much of the United States.<\/p>\n
De La Cruz vomited on the field with two outs in the fourth inning of Cincinnati\u2019s extra-inning loss at the St. Louis Cardinals. He was checked on by a trainer, and two workers from the grounds crew cleaned up the area.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI actually watched him. He drank a bunch of water. I mean a bunch,\u201d Reds manager Terry Francona said, \u201cand then he went right out and got rid of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old De La Cruz, who is from the Dominican Republic, stayed in the game and hit a two-run homer in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Thornton pitched 2 1\/3 scoreless innings for Seattle before departing in the eighth in a 10-7 loss at the Chicago Cubs. The 31-year-old right-hander had to be helped from the field.<\/p>\n
Mariners manager Dan Wilson said Thornton had \u201ca little bit of a heat-related illness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a scary moment, for sure,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cHe battled hard. But just really glad that he\u2019s feeling a little bit better now and should be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The temperature for Reds at Cardinals was 92 degrees, and it was 94 for the first pitch of the Mariners\u2019 loss to the Cubs. Milwaukee\u2019s game at Minnesota was played under an excessive heat warning.<\/p>\n
Seattle and Chicago finished their game with three umpires after Chad Whitson got sick. Dexter Kelley moved from second base to home plate.<\/p>\n
Whitson was treated in the Mariners\u2019 dugout.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came in, same kind of thing. Just was not feeling well,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cThrew up a few times in the dugout and then they came and took care of him from there. The heat was a real thing today, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitson was dealing with some dehydration, but a Major League Baseball spokesman said he was doing better Saturday night and had been cleared to work third base for the series finale.<\/p>\n
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A Wrigley Field staffer had a heat-related medical issue right after Saturday\u2019s game, according to a spokesman for the Cubs. He was tended to by medical personnel and walked off the field on his own.<\/p>\n
The Cubs set up cooling and misting stations throughout Wrigley to help fans with the heat on Saturday, along with additional emergency personnel. The team had similar plans in place for Sunday, along with bringing in a city bus to use as a cooling station on the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton got sick Saturday while playing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6372,1271,5048,6371,6368,6367,6374,6370,6375,3663,1288,62,3692,6373,6369,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-4902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chad-whitson","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-dan-wilson","12":"tag-de-la-cruz","13":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","14":"tag-excessive-heat-warning","15":"tag-extreme-heat","16":"tag-milwaukee","17":"tag-minnesota","18":"tag-seattle-mariners","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","21":"tag-terry-francona","22":"tag-trent-thornton","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114726383399528735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}