DENVER — As right-handed pitcher Ryan Feltner spent Saturday night time in an area hospital after being hit within the head by a line drive, his Rockies teammates and Phillies opponents saved him of their ideas.
Nick Castellanos’ 92.7 mph liner within the second inning of the Phillies’ 7-4 victory struck Feltner simply above the proper ear. After being attended to for a number of minutes on the mound, Feltner was in a position to stroll off the sphere.
“He’s under observation at a local hospital, undergoing a litany of exams and tests — we’ll know more in the morning,” Rockies supervisor Bud Black mentioned.
Before his press convention, Black relayed the knowledge he needed to teammates who have been nonetheless surprised by what they noticed.
“It was a slider away and Castellanos barreled it up,” third baseman Ryan McMahon mentioned. “It occurred so fast. But it was good to see him stroll off. He was a little bit dazed, for certain.
“As soon as the ball hit him, I don’t even know where the ball went. All eyes went to him.”
Catcher Elias Díaz mentioned, “I just saw the ball hit his head — I didn’t know where. I asked him how he felt and just said, ‘Stay there. Stay down.’ It was something crazy.”
The Phillies led, 4-0, as Feltner struggled with management with 4 first-inning walks. Bryce Harper — whose two-run shot within the prime of the ninth put the sport away in a lot the identical manner his two-run double on Friday made the distinction in a Phillies win — doubled with two outs within the second earlier than Castellanos got here up.
“It happens, and then I felt like I was running to first base because it was my job,” Castellanos mentioned. “Instantly what I believed was, like, ‘Holy [expletive], I hit him.’ There was part of me that needed to go to the mound, however I assume the baseball participant takes over and also you go to first.
“As quickly as I touched first, I rotated and was simply actually hoping that what occurred did not occur.”
As Feltner handled the ache, it didn’t matter which uniform a participant was carrying.
“We don’t want anybody to get hurt in that way,” Díaz mentioned. “We are baseball players, we’ve got different uniforms, but we’re still human.”
Righty Peter Lambert, who threw 2 1/3 scoreless innings at Pittsburgh on Wednesday after Senzatela’s exit, changed Feltner and threw 3 1/3 scoreless frames with 5 strikeouts. Lefty Brent Suter added two extra scoreless innings earlier than the Phillies scored one within the eighth off Jake Bird and benefited from Harper’s homer within the ninth.
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