NEW YORK -- Corbin Carroll was out of the Diamondbacks' lineup for Thursday night's game with the Mets due to tightness in his left hip flexor.
Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said that Carroll felt something when he was rounding second base while legging out a triple in the seventh inning of Wednesday's 7-2 win over the Mets. Carroll stayed in the game and did not start feeling it tighten up until after it ended.
Carroll, who was playing in his 500th big league game Wednesday, had a pair of doubles along with the triple. The first two games of the series with the Mets were played with wind chills in the 30s.
"Standing out there in the cold, he had two doubles and a triple, he's running around like a madman, and it just got tight," Lovullo said. "So instead of throwing him back out there and asking his body to do something that might cause some more damage, we decided to get him off of his feet."
Carroll is not scheduled to have any imaging taken of the hip flexor, a sign that the Diamondbacks are not overly concerned about the injury being serious.
"Very minimal [concern]," Lovullo said.
Carroll missed a large part of Spring Training due to a broken hamate bone just prior to the first full-squad workout. He rehabbed the injury very quickly -- and it hasn't hampered him at the plate, where he was slashing .333/.408/.690 heading into Thursday's game.
Carroll has been the engine that has made the Arizona offense go so far this season. The Diamondbacks have scored 45 runs, and he has scored nine and driven in 11.
"I don't want us to be reliant on Corbin [alone]," Lovullo said. "I didn't know that number -- that 40 percent of our runs scored revolve around him. I think over the course of the season, you're gonna see some other players step up. Hopefully that happens tonight."