{"id":74121,"date":"2025-08-16T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74121\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:58:11","slug":"phillies-closer-jhoan-duran-driven-off-field-after-taking-ball-to-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74121\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies closer Jhoan Duran driven off field after taking ball to foot"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Jhoan Duran<\/a> entered a game in a non-save situation for the first time since the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> acquired the star closer from Minnesota at the trade deadline. Four pitches later, Duran was limping and needed a ride off the field.<\/p>\n

Duran took a comebacker off the outer part of his right ankle in the ninth inning of Philly’s\u00a06-2 win at Washington\u00a0on Friday night. After the game, the Phillies said X-rays on the burly right-hander were negative. He will be evaluated further on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously a bad spot to get hit,\u201d Phillies star Bryce Harper said.<\/p>\n

Pitching with a four-run lead after four days off, Duran began the ninth by facing Paul DeJong, who hit a sharp grounder to the mound. The ball deflected off Duran’s ankle and into foul territory for a single.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe ran like a shot over there to retrieve the ball and then once he got there, I think the adrenaline wore off,\u201d manager Rob Thomson said. \u201cThe pain set in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duran began limping as he approached the foul line and had trouble putting weight on his right foot. After a lengthy visit by team trainers, he took a seat in the Nationals\u2019 bullpen cart and was driven away.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually said, \u2018I feel better, I think I can walk over to the dugout,\u2019\u201d said Thomson, who described the cart as a precaution given the long staircase that leads to the visiting clubhouse at Nationals Park. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s 240 pounds. I don\u2019t want to be carrying him up the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duran is four-for-four in save opportunities with the Phillies. David Robertson relieved him and gave up a double to Luis Garc\u00eda Jr., then retired the next three batters to prevent Duran from being charged with a run for the first time since the trade.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Duran has a 1.86 ERA and 20 saves this season, and the National League East-leading Phillies need him if they want to make a deep October run.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just kind keep your fingers crossed there,\u201d slugger Kyle Schwarber said, \u201cand hope that it\u2019s nothing super serious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Jhoan Duran entered a game in a non-save situation for the first time since the Philadelphia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-74121","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\/74121","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=74121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}