{"id":577013,"date":"2026-04-11T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:28:10","slug":"diamondbacks-remove-c-gabriel-moreno-with-back-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577013\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks remove C Gabriel Moreno with back tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks took catcher Gabriel Moreno out of Friday\u2019s game against the Philadelphia Phillies with left lower back tightness, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dbacks\/status\/2042750929129345368?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno caught the first two innings, but veteran backup James McCann jumped behind the plate to start the third.<\/p>\n<p>The second inning ended with Moreno throwing out Phillies outfielder Justin Crawford attempting to steal second base.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno has heated up after a slow start to the season with six hits (.462 average) over his last five games entering Friday, including two doubles off the bench in <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/eduardo-rodriguez-mets\/3617380\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thursday\u2019s 7-1 win<\/a> over the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The catcher dealt with an elbow injury in spring training that caused him to miss a week, but he was cleared by the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks have three catchers on the roster with Moreno, McCann and Adrian Del Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the rest of the game on ESPN 620 AM and the Arizona Sports app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Diamondbacks took catcher Gabriel Moreno out of Friday\u2019s game against the Philadelphia Phillies with left lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-577013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}