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PHOENIX —Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> first baseman Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> and Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> third baseman Max Muncy<\/a> both left Thursday’s game following a violent collision at first base.<\/p>\n Muncy hit a ball up the line in the fifth inning and Vargas, seeing pitcher Ryne Nelson<\/a> wouldn’t get to the bag in time, charged toward first. Muncy beat him to the bag, but the players collided and flew into the air and landed with a thud.<\/p>\n Both players lay on the field for several minutes while trainers worked on them in a hushed stadium.<\/p>\n Muncy got to his feet first and slowly headed to the dugout. He experienced what the Dodgers described as shortness of breath and was being evaluated for a concussion.<\/p>\n Vargas got up with help and walked across the diamond to his dugout.<\/p>\n Vargas was replaced by Pavin Smith<\/a> at first and Muncy was replaced by pinch runner Santiago Espinal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, June 5, 2026 4:03AM PHOENIX —Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Ildemaro Vargas and Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[297909,2317,352,2323,363,284124,3,99,297908],"class_list":["post-685241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-297909","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-muncy-max","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-vargas-ildemaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685241","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=685241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}