{"id":80675,"date":"2025-08-13T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80675\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T22:33:10","slug":"kelly-outlasts-gallen-but-d-backs-win-in-former-locker-mate-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/80675\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly outlasts Gallen but D-backs win in former locker mate duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Arizona Diamondbacks teammates Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly faced each other for the first time in their careers on Wednesday, and while the now-Texas Rangers pitcher lasted longer, the D-backs came out ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Because Texas led 3-2 when Gallen exited, Kelly will maintain his sole position as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/dbacks\/stats\/pitching\/wins\/all-time-totals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">third in Diamondbacks history<\/a> for pitcher wins (62). Gallen sits one win behind.<\/p>\n<p>The D-backs had the last laugh as Ketel Marte smashed a go-ahead, three-run home run with two outs in the ninth to give the D-backs a 6-4 lead and the win.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You wanted to face Ketel Marte. You sure about that? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QRZPuBemdb\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QRZPuBemdb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks\/status\/1955742166887841926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After two strikeouts to start the inning, James McCann launched a homer to left field to cut the Rangers\u2019 lead to one run.<\/p>\n<p>Blaze Alexander was hit by a pitch and Geraldo Perdomo drew a walk to set up Marte\u2019s moonshot to right center.<\/p>\n<p>In the first inning, Marte became the first Diamondback to get a hit against their former teammate, Kelly, and Gallen surrendered the game\u2019s first run when Evan Carter singled home Josh Smith. Kelly responded with a clean second inning before Gallen allowed a walk but no other baserunners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/mlb-top-50\/3592714\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marte<\/a> showed the first inning was no fluke when he had an RBI single to score Perdomo, who had worked a walk and a steal against a pitcher with whom he had numerous mound visits over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Marte finished 3-for-3 against Kelly with the RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Texas pounced on Gallen in the fourth inning, when Jake Burger launched a 434-foot home run to score two runs and give the Rangers a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Gallen pitched just one more inning to finish the day with three earned runs on five hits and two walks in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, meanwhile, had a clean sixth inning to finish a two-run, seven-hit and five-strikeout performance against the club he pitched his first 162 games for.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Saalfrank came on in the ninth to earn his first save of the season.<\/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\/08\/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\/08\/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":"Longtime Arizona Diamondbacks teammates Zac Gallen and Merrill Kelly faced each other for the first time in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4404,2976,363,4403,99],"class_list":["post-80675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","tag-home","tag-mlb","tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80675","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=80675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}