{"id":169773,"date":"2026-04-19T00:38:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169773\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:38:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:38:34","slug":"phillies-put-closer-jhoan-duran-on-il-with-strained-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/169773\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies put closer Jhoan Duran on IL with strained oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>placed closer <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41109\/jhoan-duran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jhoan Duran<\/a> on the 15-day injured list because of a strained left oblique, manager Rob Thomson said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The move is retroactive to Wednesday, and Thomson said <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35292\/brad-keller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brad Keller<\/a> will assume closing duties while Duran is sidelined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Duran is 1-1 with five saves, while posting a 1.35 ERA with eight strikeouts and no walks this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Phillies called up right-hander Seth Johnson from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to fill out the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Philliesplaced closer Jhoan Duran on the 15-day injured list because of a strained left oblique, manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[76406,76405,1421,76404,1423,139,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":["post-169773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-76406","tag-duran-jhoan","tag-espn","tag-keller-brad","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}