<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/diamondbacks-news-torey-lovullo-zac-gallen-merrill-kelly');   ga('set', 'title', 'Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo reacts to back-to-back shelling of aces Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly vs. Dodgers');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Number.jpeg"></figure><h1>Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo reacts to back-to-back shelling of aces Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly vs. Dodgers</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-30T07:13:27-07:00">August 30th, 7:13am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-30T07:13:27-07:00">August 30th, 7:13am</time><address><a>Andrew Meyers</a>Andrew Meyers is an avid sports fan with a fondness for Philadelphia teams that rarely love him back. He has two degrees from Quinnipiac University, including a master's in sports journalism. Outside of ClutchPoints, Meyers does play-by-play broadcasting for various colleges in the northeast.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The last thing the Arizona Diamondbacks need in the midst of a playoff chase is for their two ace starting pitchers to crumble down the stretch.</p><p>While these last two starts by Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen are probably outliers in their otherwise spectacular seasons, their performances against the Los Angeles Dodgers over the last two nights played a significant factor in the Diamondbacks <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/merrill-kelly-falls-dodgers-dbacks-wild-card-hunt" rel="noopener">losing their standing</a> in the National League wild card picture.</p><p>The duo, who both had top-5 ERAs in the NL entering their respective starts against the Dodgers, combined to allow 13 runs on 21 hits. They both did not make it past the sixth inning.</p><p>“Yeah, you don’t really budget for that,” D-backs manager Torey Lovullo said, via Sarah Wexler. “You don’t think that’s going to happen. Look, give credit where credit is due — [the Dodgers] came out ready to play in the first inning and pounced on our two best guys.”</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/diamondbacks-news-corbin-carroll-reaches-mike-trout-territory-with-insane-hr-sb-rookie-feat" rel="noopener">The Diamondbacks started the series</a> on Monday in the final wild card spot in the National League. They are currently on the outside looking in as the San Francisco Giants have won three straight. Things don’t get much easier for Arizona this week. It’ll host the Baltimore Orioles, the American League’s best team, this weekend.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/diamondbacks-news-merrill-kelly-leaves-dominant-outing-vs-reds-game-with-troubling-injury" rel="noopener">Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen</a> are both NL Cy Young Award candidates this season. Tossing a combined 33 quality starts will do that for a pitcher. The Diamondbacks have two great ones and they need both of them to be at the top of their games in September.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo reacts to back-to-back shelling of aces Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly vs. Dodgers

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/diamondbacks-news-merrill-kelly-leaves-dominant-outing-vs-reds-game-with-troubling-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Diamondbacks SP Merrill Kelly leaves dominant outing vs. Reds game with troubling injury');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Merrill-Kelly-Diamondbacks-injury-Reds.jpg"></figure><h1>Diamondbacks SP Merrill Kelly leaves dominant outing vs. Reds game with troubling injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-24T22:04:38-07:00">August 24th, 10:04pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-24T22:04:38-07:00">August 24th, 10:04pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Loves Arsenal and the Los Angeles Clippers, so his loyalty can never be questioned. This guy has been through enough sports trauma for one lifetime -- so he writes about it instead as a form of therapy. (It hasn't worked though. Someday maybe it will -- especially when he's been working for ClutchPoints since August 2022.)</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Arizona Diamondbacks are feeling the heat of the playoff race, as they enter their Thursday night contest against the Cincinnati Reds standing just a half-game back of their NL Central opponent in the Wild Card race. Thus, every pitch and every plate appearance matters. However, even with the Diamondbacks fresh off an <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/reds-vs-diamondbacks-prediction-odds-pick-how-to-watch-8-24-2023" rel="noopener">all-important</a> 3-2 win over the Reds, it may have come at the huge cost of one of their best pitchers, Merrill Kelly.</p><p>Kelly, on Friday night, pitched a gem, striking out 12 while blanking the Reds across seven innings, allowing just one hit during that span. Alas, Kelly’s incredible start did not end on the best of terms, as he had to exit the game at the start of the eighth inning after suffering an <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseNFriedman/status/1694918229691646072" rel="noopener">apparent injury</a>, per Jesse Friedman, Diamondbacks beat writer for PHNX Sports.</p><p>The nature and severity of the injury Merrill Kelly suffered remains unclear at the moment, as the Diamondbacks have yet to issue an update regarding the 34-year old starter’s condition. However, even if the situation lacks clarity at the time of writing, Kelly’s injury history thus far in 2023 may be a cause for concern. Kelly had to <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/diamondbacks-news-merrill-kelly-forced-to-leave-start-vs-dodgers-with-concerning-injury" rel="noopener">exit his start early</a> vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers over two weeks ago, while he also dealt with a serious blood clot issue in his right calf back in June.</p><p>For the Diamondbacks to continue cementing their place as a Wild Card team in the NL, they will badly be in need of Kelly’s services. After his dominant start vs. the Reds, Kelly <a href="https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/merrill-kelly-2023-stats" rel="noopener">has now tallied</a> a solid ERA of 2.97 to go along with 146 strikeouts in 136.1 innings of work in 2023.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Diamondbacks SP Merrill Kelly leaves dominant outing vs. Reds game with troubling injury

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This guy has been through enough sports trauma for one lifetime -- so he writes about it instead as a form of therapy. (It hasn't worked though. Someday maybe it will -- especially when he's been working for ClutchPoints since August 2022.)</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>What was shaping up to be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/diamondbacks-news-arizona-reaching-feat-not-seen-in-5-years-will-have-fans-thinking-playoffs" rel="noopener">a promising season</a> for the Arizona Diamondbacks is quickly turning into a nightmare. They have gone 9-26 since June 28, and their free-fall doesn’t appear to be approaching its end anytime soon — similar to when Doctor Strange put Loki in that endless pit — as their luck continues to take a turn for the worse, this time with a concerning injury to starting pitcher Merrill Kelly.</p><p>On Wednesday night, with a tough matchup on the docket against division rival Los Angeles Dodgers, the Diamondbacks turned to Kelly to match up against Bobby Miller. The 34-year old starter certainly pitched well, throwing six innings without allowing any runs. But he had to exit the game early after looking <a href="https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1689476499727065088" rel="noopener">“uncomfortable” pushing off the moun</a>d, per Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic.</p><p>If this is an isolated case, then the Diamondbacks won’t have much reason to worry about the well-being of Merrill Kelly. But Kelly has a history of serious injury problems that is in danger of being re-aggravated with this latest knock. As Ardaya pointed out, Kelly missed a month of action (from June 25 to July 24) due to a blood clot in his right calf — <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/heat-news-chris-bosh-details-the-difficulties-of-going-through-blood-clot-situation-with-miami" rel="noopener">a similar injury</a> to the one that caused the premature end of basketball Hall of Famer Chris Bosh’s career.</p><p>Simply put, it’s a big deal if Kelly’s most recent injury is related to the clotting he experienced not too long ago. It doesn’t just concern the Diamondbacks’ free-falling season, but the 34-year old starter’s career as well, as it’s clear from his <a href="https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/merrill-kelly-2023-stats" rel="noopener">performance during the 2023 season</a> that he has a lot left in the tank.</p><p>In 20 games (118.0 innings pitched), Kelly has put up a 9-5 record for the Diamondbacks, and a healthy 3.05 ERA. He has also struck out 120 batters while allowing just 44 walks, proving to be a quality top of the rotation arm for the team <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/diamondbacks-news-zac-gallen-confronts-brutal-twist-season-4-word-reaction" rel="noopener">behind ace Zac Gallen</a>.</p><p>It may be too premature to make any prognostications regarding the true severity of Merrill Kelly’s injury. But in the interim, any sort of absence from the 34-year old will only serve to make an already-difficult stretch for the Diamondbacks an even more trying one.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2025 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
46	4.70	16	1.57	1

2025 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
46	4.70	16	1.57	1

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