Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton received sick Saturday whereas enjoying within the excessive warmth that coated a lot of the US.
De La Cruz vomited on the sector with two outs within the fourth inning of Cincinnati’s extra-inning loss on the St. Louis Cardinals. He was checked on by a coach, and two staff from the grounds crew cleaned up the world.
“I truly watched him. He drank a bunch of water. I imply a bunch,” Reds supervisor Terry Francona mentioned, “after which he went proper out and removed it.”
The 23-year-old De La Cruz, who’s from the Dominican Republic, stayed within the sport and hit a two-run homer within the seventh.
Thornton pitched 2⅓ scoreless innings for Seattle earlier than departing within the eighth in a 10-7 loss on the Chicago Cubs. The 31-year-old right-hander needed to be helped from the sector.
Mariners supervisor Dan Wilson mentioned Thornton had “just a little little bit of a heat-related sickness.”
“It was a scary second, for certain,” Wilson mentioned. “He battled arduous. However simply actually glad that he is feeling just a little bit higher now and needs to be OK.”
The sport-time temperature for Reds at Cardinals was 92 levels, and it was 94 for the primary pitch of the Mariners’ loss to the Cubs. Milwaukee’s sport at Minnesota was performed below an extreme warmth warning.
Seattle and Chicago completed their sport with three umpires after Chad Whitson received sick. Dexter Kelley moved from second base to house plate.
Whitson was handled within the Mariners’ dugout.
“He got here in, identical type of factor. Simply was not feeling effectively,” Wilson mentioned. “Threw up a number of instances within the dugout after which they got here and took care of him from there. The warmth was an actual factor as we speak, for certain.”
Whitson was coping with some dehydration, however a Main League Baseball spokesman mentioned he was doing higher Saturday evening and had been cleared to work third base for the sequence finale.
A Wrigley Subject staffer had a heat-related medical situation proper after Saturday’s sport, in keeping with a spokesman for the Cubs. He was tended to by medical personnel and walked off the sector on his personal.
The Cubs arrange cooling and misting stations all through Wrigley to assist followers with the warmth on Saturday, together with extra emergency personnel. The staff had comparable plans in place for Sunday, together with bringing in a metropolis bus to make use of as a cooling station on the road.