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Playing baseball is hard enough to begin with. Still, Arizona Diamondback’s Relief Pitcher Jalen Bieeks encountered a different degree of difficulties in the team’s 8-2 victory over Colorado Rockies Thursday.
Beeks, 32, turned off a fly while he was in the middle of his delivery against the home plate.
“Yes, I turned off a fly when I lifted my leg,” Beeks said via MLB.com. “Never had it happened, but you know we got through it. We got the victory. That’s the important thing.”
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Jalen Beeks, #68 of Arizona Diamondbacks, delivers a pitch in the ninth lap against Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 14, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
Beeks was unprotected by his meeting with the fly.
“I fucked a little. It just took me a second but I was doing well. No big deal. Good story for later, though.”
Diamondbacks’ manager Torey Lovullo was originally worried that Beeks was injured after seeing his reaction to the haug after the field.
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Arizona Diamondbacks Relief Pitcher Jalen Beeks (68) on the Haugen in the ninth round against Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 14, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. (Isaiah J. Downing/Imag images)
“You just hold your breath,” Lovullo said via MLB.com. “You are wondering, like ‘is it an oblique? Is that back?'”
“When I got out there, he said he was going on his turn and the fly was present.”
Unfortunately for Beeks, Rockie’s Center Fielder Brenton Doyle hit a solo home home in the same bat as the fly event. Doyle’s home driving cut the lead to 8-2 at the bottom of the ninth lap, and Beeks remained in the game to get the last three outs and close the victory.
Colorado Rockies’ Brenton Doyle follows the flight of his solo home -driving of Arizona Diamondback’s Relief Pitcher Jalen Beeks in the ninth lap of a baseball match on Thursday 14 August 2025 in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Diamondbacks (60-62) play Rockies (32-89) in the second game in their four-game series Friday at. 20.40 one, and Beeks can only hope that if he throws himself again, he does not have unexpected meetings with bugs.
