Phillies SS Trea Turner sidelined with a hamstring strain, could return in time for postseason

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Phillies SS Trea Turner sidelined with a hamstring strain, could return in time for postseason

2025-09-09 10:28 Last Updated At：10:30

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The good news for Trea Turner and the Phillies is this: Even as the NL batting leader is out with a strained right hamstring that could cost him the rest of the regular season, Philadelphia's shortstop expects to be healthy in time to play in October.

Manager Rob Thomson said before Aaron Nola tossed six shutout innings in a 1-0 win Monday night against the New York Mets the MRI results on Turner's hamstring were “better than expected” and that the injury wasn’t as severe as the strained left hamstring that sidelined him for six weeks last season.

Turner, in the third season of an 11-year, $300-million contract, said he was confident he shouldn't need more than the last three weeks of September to get back to full strength.

He can afford to rest.

The Phillies stretched their lead in the NL East to eight games over the Mets, pulling away in a race that seemed to tighten when New York completed a three-game sweep of Philadelphia late last month.

“The playoffs is the most important,” Turner said. “Trying to find that fine line of trying to get ready for that but also not rushing it back, coming back for no reason. Shooting for kind of the playoffs, if not a little bit earlier.”

The Phillies are trying to win their second straight division title and earn the No. 2 seed in the NL playoffs. That would give the Phillies a first-round bye and set up Game 1 of the NLDS on Oct. 4 — at home, possibly with Turner back at the top of the lineup.

Turner left Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the Miami Marlins in the seventh inning after running down the first base line.

Turner hit a solo homer in the sixth to narrow Philadelphia’s deficit to 4-2. When his turn came again in the seventh, Turner legged out a grounder and reached on a throwing error by Miami shortstop Otto López.

“I knew I did something,” Turner said. “I didn't know to what extent.”

The 32-year-old leads the National League in both batting average (.305) and hits (179) this season. Turner also had 36 stolen bases.

Without Turner at the top of lineup against the Mets, two-time NL MVP Bryce Harper hit leadoff for the first time since Oct. 4, 2022, and for the 38th time in his career.

“We just talked about it, and it’s something we kind of all wanted to try,” Harper said. “We’ll see how it goes.”

Harper went 0 for 4 and struck out twice against the Mets.

The Phillies also put 2024 All-Star third baseman Alec Bohm on the 10-day injured list with a left shoulder injury.

“He’s been grinding with this left shoulder for a while now, fighting through it. It’s probably been 10 days," Thomson said. “He could feel it every once in a while in a swing. Yesterday he felt it on every swing, so we decided to shut this thing down.”

The Phillies recalled infielder/outfielder Otto Kemp and infielder Donovan Walton from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to fill Turner's and Bohm's spots on the roster.

Kemp started at third base and Edmundo Sosa at shortstop against the Mets.

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Record floods in Washington state trigger dramatic rescues and evacuations

BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Record floodwaters began slowly receding in Washington state on Friday after triggering evacuations, inundating communities and prompting dramatic rescues from rooftops and vehicles. But authorities warned that waters would still be high for days, and that danger from potential levee failures remained.

“This is not just a one- or two-day crisis,” Gov. Bob Ferguson said at a news briefing. “These water levels have been historic, and they’re going to remain very high for an extended period of time.”

President Donald Trump has signed the state’s request for an emergency declaration, Ferguson said.

An unusually strong atmospheric river dumped a foot (30 cm) or more of rain in parts of western Washington over several days and swelled rivers. No deaths have been reported, Ferguson said.

Authorities have yet to estimate the costs, but photos and videos show widespread damage, with entire communities or neighborhoods flooded around western and central Washington. Officials have conducted dozens of water rescues, debris and mudslides have closed highways, and raging torrents have washed out roads or bridges.

Officials issued “go now” orders Wednesday to tens of thousands of residents in the Skagit River flood plain north of Seattle, including the farming city of Burlington, home to nearly 10,000 people. By Friday morning, muddy water overflowed a slough and rushed into homes, prompting more urgent warnings for Burlington.

National Guard members knocked on hundreds of doors in Burlington early Friday to tell residents about the evacuation notice and help transport them to a shelter if needed. By late morning the evacuation order was lifted for part of the city and waters were slowly receding. But the river remained high, and flash flooding remained a risk due to prolonged pressure on the levees.

The Skagit River drains a wide swath of the rugged Cascade Range before winding west across broad, low-lying farmlands and tulip fields on its way to Puget Sound. Cities like Burlington sit on that delta, leaving them especially vulnerable to floods.

The river crested overnight at 37 feet (11 meters) in the valley’s biggest city, Mount Vernon, surpassing the previous record by a few inches. A flood wall completed in Mount Vernon in 2018 held fast and protected the downtown area.

About 1,000 Burlington residents had to evacuate in the middle of the night, Ferguson said. The water was reportedly 2 to 3 feet (0.6 to 0.9 meters) deep in certain areas as it flooded homes, police department spokesperson Michael Lumpkin said.

Mario Rincón had been staying at a hotel with his family, including a week-old infant. They returned to their Burlington property Friday but couldn’t get inside to assess the damage, as murky floodwaters reached part-way up the first floor. He had moved some items upstairs in anticipation.

“It’s going to be a few days before the water recedes,” he said. “We’re going to be looking where to stay in the meantime, and it’s kind of difficult because my mom and my mother-in-law are visiting from Mexico until the end of December for the holidays.”

The heaviest rain is over in the region, but the impact remains widespread.

“It's going to take a while for the flood waters to recede,” said Robert Ezelle, director of the Washington Military Department's emergency management division. “There’s a lot of water that fell in the mountains and it’s gonna take its time to work through the river drainages."

More rain is expected beginning Sunday. That will cause rivers to rise again, Ezelle said.

Near the U.S.-Canada border, Sumas, Nooksack and Everson — which together have about 6,500 residents — were inundated. The border crossing at Sumas was closed.

Sumas Mayor Bruce Bosch said much of the city had been “devastated” — just four years after a similar flood. In a social media message, he acknowledged the community was anxious to return to their homes.

“Hang in there," he wrote.

In King County, crews worked through the night to fill a sinkhole on a levee along the Green River in the Seattle suburb of Tukwila, county executive Girmay Zahilay said Friday. Another county wastewater employee got trapped inside a treatment facility during flooding but continued to work for days to keep critical plant operations running, Zahilay said.

“That commitment protected public health for millions of people,” he said.

Authorities across Washington state in recent days have rescued people from cars and homes.

Helicopters rescued two families on Thursday from the roofs of homes in Sumas that had been flooded by about 15 feet (4.6 meters) of water, according Frank Cain Jr., battalion chief for Whatcom County Fire District 14.

Near Deming, two homes collapsed into the Nooksack River as erosion undercut them. No one was inside at the time.

Animals were also rescued, including a rooster that had found refuge on a tree branch. Kayakers navigating floodwaters near Burlington hoisted their paddles to save the animal.

Further south in Oregon, a landslide took out a portion of a highway near the central Oregon coast, the state transportation department said, adding it would be a long-term closure.

Climate change has been linked to some intense rainfall. Scientists say that without specific study they cannot directly link a single weather event to climate change, but in general it’s responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme storms, droughts, floods and wildfires.

This story has been updated to correct that National Guard members knocked on doors in Burlington on Friday morning, not Wednesday morning.

Rush reported from Portland, Oregon. Associated Press writers Gene Johnson and Hallie Golden in Seattle and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.