Aug 16, 2025, 06:43 PM ET<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON — The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> placed ace Zack Wheeler<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Saturday with a blood clot in his right arm.<\/p>\n President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said after the Phillies’ 2-0 loss<\/a> to the Nationals<\/a> that Wheeler had been diagnosed with a “right, upper extremity blood clot.”<\/p>\n “There’s not a lot that we can say on it at this time,” said Dombrowski, who commended doctors for finding the clot. “It could have been a much more trying situation than it is.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Wheeler pitched Friday against Washington and was limited to five innings for the second consecutive start. The right-hander allowed two runs and four hits.<\/p>\n Phillies head athletic trainer Paul Buchheit said Wheeler had been feeling better after some right shoulder soreness, but that changed Friday.<\/p>\n “He felt a little heaviness,” Buchheit said. “So, the doctors here were great in helping to diagnose and expedite that diagnosis this morning.”<\/p>\n Buchheit said he didn’t think Wheeler’s present condition had anything to do with his previous stiffness. He said there is a wide variety of treatments available, but declined to get into specifics.<\/p>\n Dombrowski said Wheeler would be evaluated further in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old Wheeler is 10-5 this season with a 2.71 ERA. He has 195 strikeouts in 149\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 16, 2025, 06:43 PM ET WASHINGTON — The Philadelphia Phillies placed ace Zack Wheeler on the 15-day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-96237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96237","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=96237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}