TORONTO – Marlins right-hander Eury Pérez exited Wednesday afternoon’s series finale against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre with a right hamstring spasm.
Pérez, who had struck out a season-high nine batters over four scoreless innings, was spotted by the Marlins.TV stretching his shoulder and jumping to stay loose in between innings. Once he sat down, he appeared in visible pain and was attended to by a member of the training staff before being helped down the tunnel by Sandy Alcantara.
The 23-year-old Pérez had some of his best stuff working in the 73-pitch outing, recording his first five outs via the K and throwing the second-fastest pitch of his career – a 101 mph four-seamer – to strike out former teammate Jesús Sánchez.
Pérez allowed three hits (all singles) and didn’t walk a batter for a second straight start. Things even got a bit testy when Pérez hit Kazuma Okamoto for the fifth HBP of a Blue Jays batter over the last two games. There appeared to be chirping from the Toronto dugout as Pérez stared back.
Right-hander Michael Petersen took over for Pérez in the fifth and gave up the game-tying run on Nathan Lukes’ two-out double off the right-center wall.