{"id":862035,"date":"2026-08-18T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862035\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:12:08","slug":"diamondbacks-ketel-marte-doesnt-show-up-for-game-vs-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/862035\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; Ketel Marte doesn&#8217;t show up for game vs. Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"arizona-diamondbacks\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> have placed All-Star second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/ketel-marte\/04b68b54-6217-4436-b3e8-bed6d3bd4942\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"04b68b54-6217-4436-b3e8-bed6d3bd4942\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ketel Marte<\/a> on the restricted list after he went AWOL for the second straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Marte failed to show up for Arizona&#8217;s game at Boston Monday night and manager Torey Lovullo was still searching for answers after it was over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been a crazy day. All I know is that he\u2019s dealing with a personal issue \u2014 we\u2019re just trying to figure that out,\u201d Lovullo told reporters following\u00a0the Diamondbacks&#8217; 11-1 loss\u00a0to the Red Sox. \u201cHe didn\u2019t show up today and he was put on the restricted list. That\u2019s as much as I know right now. I&#8217;m sure in time we&#8217;ll start to uncover some information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lovullo said he spoke to Marte Monday morning and afternoon trying to find out what was going on, but didn&#8217;t get any answers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was very little coming back,\u201d Lovullo said.<\/p>\n<p>Marte travelled with the team to Boston and Lovullo thought he was still there, but wasn&#8217;t certain.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the first time Marte had a strange disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he went on the restricted list when his home in Arizona was broken into during the All-Star break. He\u00a0missed three games\u00a0after flying back to his home in the Dominican Republic and later apologized for his absence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know there was a lot of discussions about it at different points of time in the clubhouse today \u2014 there was a lot of curiosity,\u201d Lovullo said. \u201cWe care for Ketel and once we knew he was OK, I think everybody relaxed and started to focus on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A three-time All-Star, Marte is hitting .249 with 21 homers and 67 RBIs in 118 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona recalled infielder Jose Fernandez to fill Marte\u2019s roster spot. He was already in Boston in case third baseman Nolan Arenado wasn&#8217;t able to play after leaving Sunday&#8217;s game against Atlanta with what the team called \u201ctrunk discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arenado didn&#8217;t play against the Red Sox, but his injury wasn&#8217;t expected to be long term.<\/p>\n<p>Marte&#8217;s status \u2014 on the field and in the clubhouse \u2014 going forward is a bit foggier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t got that far,\u201d Lovullo said. \u201cI need a good night\u2019s rest, a glass of wine and we\u2019ll think about that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON \u2014 The Arizona Diamondbacks have placed All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte on the restricted list after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-862035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862035","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=862035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}