Carroll injury main issue for Diamondbacks after sweep

Thursday night was bad in all shapes and forms for the Arizona Diamondbacks after they were shut out for the first time this season, losing 9-0 to the New York Mets. However, what drew the most concern in the midst of the loss was Corbin Carroll and his shoulder discomfort.

The Diamondbacks got swept in a three-game series, for the first time this year. This was their fourth consecutive loss, their longest losing streak of the year.

Most concerning of everything that happened was the team watching again, star tookie Corbin Carroll exit a game because of discomfort in his right shoulder.

Carroll missed a swing at a change-up from Carlos Carrasco in the seventh and then grabbed his right shoulder. He held his right arm close to his body and quickly walked off the pitch with an athletic trainer.

This is the second time in the last week that Carroll’s shoulder acted up. Last Thursday he swung at a pitch and felt discomfort in the shoulder. He remained in the match for another half-inning before he left.

That same right shoulder was what made Carroll miss almost the whole 2021 season following surgery to repair the posterior capsular avulsion and labrum tear.

Arizona ran strength tests on Carroll after the game and confirmed that his shoulder was strong and stable. He did not start the following two games before pinch-hitting on Sunday.

Chosen to be a starter for the National League in next week’s All-Star Game, Carroll began all three matches of the current series with the New York Mets.

Again, Diamondbacks’ manager Torey Lovullo said the first tests on Carroll’s shoulder showed it stable and that he had good strength in it. But, now, he will be sent for an MRI to find out what is causing the discomfort.

“Things checked out a little bit more positively than I was expecting based on what I saw,” Lovullo said. “We all saw the same thing. And you know, it didn’t look good. So for the last three or four innings [of the game] all I was thinking about was ‘How’s Corbin? How’s he emotionally? How’s he physically?’ There’s going to be some imaging tomorrow morning where we’re going to find out what’s going on in there but it’s more positive than I was thinking after I saw what I saw.”

Carroll is one player Arizona can least afford to lose, at this point in the year he is the front-runner to win NL Rookie of the Year.

Despite him being in the lineup, the Diamondbacks still fell out of the game against New York on Thursday.

Wednesday’s loss was a disheartening 2-1 loss where they were one strike away from winning 1-0 before the Mets got two in the ninth and Lovullo proposed that they may have been a hangover from that game that led to this match getting out of control that early.

Ryne Nelson the starter, who was fresh off two fantastic starts, could not ward the hitters off, while the Diamondbacks allowed a popup fall which added to a five-run New York third inning. They had a runner picked off first with two outs and slugger Christian Walker up in the first inning.

“It was a bad game, it was a bad effort in a lot of different ways,” Lovullo said. “They came out hot, swung the bats and just beat us. You know that happens. For these three days, we didn’t play D-backs baseball. Everything was just adding up in a very negative way. It was a total clunker. We’ve got to find a way to get it turned around.”

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