{"id":613921,"date":"2026-04-19T06:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:26:21","slug":"phillies-put-closer-jhoan-duran-on-il-with-strained-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613921\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies put closer Jhoan Duran on IL with strained oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 18, 2026, 07:49 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ff1e263a-f6a6-93c3-1373-418623652ff0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> placed closer <a data-player-guid=\"0090bfcb-e1df-5247-83fd-ce29fbff5787\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41109\/jhoan-duran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jhoan Duran<\/a> on the 15-day injured list because of a strained left oblique, manager Rob Thomson said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Duran, who hasn&#8217;t pitched since April 11, said the injury is &#8220;very mild&#8221; and occurred when he threw on the side Friday. He had an MRI on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be long, but I can&#8217;t hold you to that,&#8221; Thomson said of Duran&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>The move is retroactive to Wednesday, and Thomson said <a data-player-guid=\"5a308ffb-db14-fdfe-ffa0-76ae20567ae1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35292\/brad-keller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Keller<\/a> will assume closing duties while Duran is sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Duran is 1-1 with five saves, while posting a 1.35 ERA with eight strikeouts and no walks this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies called up right-hander Seth Johnson from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to fill out the roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 18, 2026, 07:49 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies placed closer Jhoan Duran on the 15-day injured list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-613921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}