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Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton got sick portion playing successful the utmost vigor that covered overmuch of the United States
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz and Seattle Mariners reliever Trent Thornton got sick Saturday portion playing successful the utmost vigor that covered overmuch of the United States.
De La Cruz vomited connected the tract with 2 outs successful the 4th inning of Cincinnati's extra-inning loss astatine the St. Louis Cardinals. He was checked connected by a trainer, and 2 workers from the grounds unit cleaned up the area.
The 23-year-old De La Cruz, who is from the Dominican Republic, stayed successful the crippled and deed a two-run homer successful the seventh.
Thornton pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings for Seattle earlier departing successful the eighth successful a 10-7 nonaccomplishment astatine the Chicago Cubs. The 31-year-old right-hander had to beryllium helped from the field.
Mariners manager Dan Wilson said Thornton had “a small spot of a heat-related illness.”
“It was a scary moment, for sure,” Wilson said. “He battled hard. But conscionable truly gladsome that he's feeling a small spot amended present and should beryllium OK.”
The gametime somesthesia for Reds astatine Cardinals was 92 degrees, and it was 94 for the archetypal transportation of the Mariners' nonaccomplishment to the Cubs. Milwaukee's crippled astatine Minnesota was played nether an excessive vigor warning.
Seattle and Chicago finished their crippled with 3 umpires aft Chad Whitson got sick. Dexter Kelley moved from 2nd basal to location plate.
Whitson was treated successful the Mariners' dugout.
“He came in, aforesaid benignant of thing. Just was not feeling well,” Wilson said. “Threw up a fewer times successful the dugout and past they came and took attraction of him from there. The vigor was a existent happening today, for sure.”
Whitson was dealing with immoderate dehydration, but a Major League Baseball spokesperson said helium was doing amended Saturday nighttime and had been cleared to enactment 3rd basal for the bid finale.
A Wrigley Field staffer had a heat-related aesculapian contented close aft Saturday's game, according to a spokesperson for the Cubs. He was tended to by aesculapian unit and walked disconnected the tract connected his own.
The Cubs acceptable up cooling and misting stations passim Wrigley to assistance fans with the vigor connected Saturday, on with further exigency personnel. The squad had akin plans successful spot for Sunday, on with bringing successful a metropolis autobus to usage arsenic a cooling presumption connected the street.
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