NEW YORK -- Two days after Marlins right-hander Eury Pérez left Wednesday afternoon’s 2-1 loss with a right hamstring injury, the team announced before its game with the Mets that it was placing him on the 15-day injured list with a right gracilis strain in his inner thigh. The injury will require an eight-week recovery period.
Pérez, who had struck out a season-high nine batters over four scoreless innings, was spotted by the Marlins.TV broadcast doing his normal stretching routine 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.
“I was just having a conversation with our pitching coach and suddenly I felt tightness right there in my leg and I couldn’t get up,” Pérez said via interpreter Luis Dorante Jr.
“I would say on a scale from 1-10, I would give a 10. It was very painful. I knew I was not going to be able to go out there, and that was the same thought from our coaches, and we decided to go inside and just take a look at it.”
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 has gone 3-6 with a 4.60 ERA this season, striking out 72 and walking 28 in 62 2/3 innings.