Ryne Nelson leaves with injury as Padres finish off Diamondbacks in series win
In the sixth inning Sunday afternoon, a terrible game in a terrible week for the Diamondbacks seemed as if it might grow just a little bit worse.
“There was zero flexibility in my mind at that point,” Lovullo said. On the mound, he held an impassioned conversation with Nelson, explaining his thinking. At the end of it, Nelson handed the ball over without complaint and walked into the dugout, raising immediate concern over the health of a young pitching prospect who had shone with two scoreless outings in his first two major league starts.“It's just a bruise, we dodged a bullet,” Lovullo said.
“He wasn't very fastball efficient,” Lovullo said. “I think that was the difference between today's outing and the previous two. I think his fastball was being sprayed around a little bit. He made some middle-middle mistakes, middle-up mistakes and they made an adjustment to him.” With Nelson having avoided major injury, though, the chief concern for the Diamondbacks entering this week’s five-game series against the Dodgers will be an offense that was once again anemic — although they did avoid a fourth shutout in this seven-game homestand with a ninth inning Ketel Marte sac fly.
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