{"id":79387,"date":"2025-08-19T07:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79387\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:46:12","slug":"diamondbacks-star-ketel-marte-apologizes-for-taking-time-off-after-all-star-game-which-reportedly-led-to-team-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79387\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte apologizes for taking time off after All-Star Game, which reportedly led to team rift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte apologized to his teammates on Monday after he missed a series against the St. Louis Cardinals after the All-Star break for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

The incident was just the latest time that Marte has asked for an off day, which is something that has reportedly been causing issues within the Diamondbacks\u2019 organization recently.<\/p>\n

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Marte flew back to his home in the Dominican Republic after the All-Star break and missed three games \u2014 which he said came after he was \u201cfrustrated\u201d and \u201cin a bad spot\u201d after learning that his Arizona home had been burglarized during the break.<\/p>\n

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The Diamondbacks then lost nine of their next 10 games when Marte rejoined the lineup. They then dealt several key players at the trade deadline and now sit at just 60-66 on the season after Monday\u2019s 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians. That has them suddenly seven games out of the last wild-card spot in the National League.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there\u2019s an elephant in the room and I\u2019ll just say what I want to say about it,\u201d Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said, via The Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cI know that Ketel talked to you guys and I\u2019m proud of him for doing that. That\u2019s not easy for him to do. I know he showed some vulnerability and I\u2019m really proud of him for digging in the way that he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019ll say about Ketel are the things that I know \u2014 he\u2019s a great teammate, he\u2019s a great young man, he plays hard every single day for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He just wants to win baseball games. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marte currently holds a .295 batting average with 56 RBI and 23 home runs this season. The 31-year-old has been a huge part of the Diamondbacks\u2019 success in recent years, and he helped lead the franchise to their first World Series appearance since since 2001 in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s over,\u201d shortstop Geraldo Perdomo said of the situation, via The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cI want to put it behind us because we got baseball games we got to go out there and win. That\u2019s our main focus.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte apologized to his teammates on Monday after he missed a series against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[592,64,63,5258,41439,7815,591,85,2366,60569],"class_list":["post-79387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-geraldo-perdomo","tag-ketel-marte","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-torey-lovullo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79387","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=79387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}