{"id":769506,"date":"2026-06-30T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769506\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T08:30:10","slug":"d-backs-to-recall-brandon-pfaadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/769506\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Backs To Recall Brandon Pfaadt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diamondbacks will recall\u00a0Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> to start tomorrow\u2019s game against the Giants, manager Torey Lovullo told reporters (including Alex Weiner of Arizona Sports<\/a>). The Snakes have been operating with a nine-man bullpen and will need to option a pitcher to create space on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Pfaadt will presumably rejoin the rotation for the first time since April. He opened the season in the starting five while\u00a0Merrill Kelly<\/a> was on the injured list. Pfaadt was hit hard in two of his first three starts and moved to the bullpen once Kelly returned. Michael Soroka<\/a>, expected to pitch in long relief, had outperformed Pfaadt in the early going.<\/p>\n

The D-Backs rolled with a rotation comprising Kelly,\u00a0Zac Gallen<\/a>,\u00a0Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a>, Soroka and\u00a0Ryne Nelson<\/a> for a while. Pfaadt spent six weeks in the bullpen before Arizona optioned him to Triple-A to begin building back up as a starter. It wasn\u2019t long after that Soroka and Nelson went down to injuries in rapid succession. Soroka (left glute strain) could be back by late July, but Nelson has a partial flexor tear and will probably be down into September.<\/p>\n

Rookie right-hander\u00a0Jose Cabrera<\/a> has taken one of those vacated rotation spots. Southpaw\u00a0Mitch Bratt<\/a> made a spot start in his MLB debut last week. Bratt had just returned from an injury in the minors and was on a pitch limit, so he only went three innings. The D-Backs optioned him out the next day.<\/p>\n

Pfaadt wasn\u2019t ready to reclaim a rotation spot at that point. He still hasn\u2019t completed four full innings over three starts at Triple-A Reno. The righty has pitched pretty well in his minor league tune-up, though, working 10 innings of three-run ball with seven strikeouts and two walks. He has an earned run average close to 6.00 across 38 big league frames this season.<\/p>\n

The Diamondbacks took tonight\u2019s series opener behind another strong start from Rodriguez. (They\u2019re now 7-0 against the Giants this season.) They pulled back to 42-42 after a weekend sweep by the Rays had dropped them below .500 for the first time in six weeks. Arizona is 2.5 games out in a crowded NL Wild Card picture. General manager Mike Hazen has said they\u2019re hoping to buy, pointing to a left-handed bat and relief help as likely targets. In early June, Hazen downplayed<\/a> the need to add a starter, but that preceded the Nelson and Soroka injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks will recall\u00a0Brandon Pfaadt to start tomorrow\u2019s game against the Giants, manager Torey Lovullo told reporters (including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,246686,591,85],"class_list":["post-769506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandon-pfaadt","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}