Rising temperatures Throughout the United States, wreaking havoc Major League Baseball Saturday, with Cincinnati Reds’ short stop Elly de la cruz And the relief of Seattle Mariners, Trent Thornton, both became ill in their respective matches.

De la Cruz spotted in the outfield during the fourth innings of the Reds’ 6-5 defeat in the St. Louis Cardinals in Busch Stadium, where the temperature at the first pitch at 92 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) was recorded.

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Grounds Crew cleaned the area after the dominican, which eventually decided to continue, was prone by a coach.

“I actually watched him,” said Cincona manager Terry Francona. “He drank a lot of water. I mean a bunch! And then he went out immediately and got rid of it. ‘

De La Cruz’s decision to stay in the game cast in seventh place. With the score attached to 2-2, the short stop from Steven Matz’s 85 mph change and crushed it 435 feet to the left center for a two-run home game.

Later, in the 10-7 defeat of the Mariners against the Chicago Cubs, Trent Thornton had to be treated by emergency medical technicians after suffering from heat exhaustion.

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With the heat on Wrigley Field reaching 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34 degrees Celsius) at the first pitch, the reliever Thornton pitched 2 1/3 standings, but he had to scale in the eighth place after stopping a walk to Ian Happ.

Mariners’ manager Dan Wilson and assistant athletics coach Kevin Orloski helped Thornton off the field, and the 31-year-old took an ice bath shortly afterwards.

“It was certainly a narrow moment,” Wilson says, according to MLB.com. “He struggled hard. But just very glad he now feels a little better and should be good. ‘

The incident came after referee Chad Whitson had already left the match after he fell ill at the end of the fifth inning, which caused a 10 -minute delay and moved Dexter Kelley from second to the law.

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“He came in, the same kind of thing. Just didn’t feel good, ‘Wilson says by AP. “A few times in the Dugout threw up and then they came to him from there. The heat was a real thing today. ‘

A MLB spokeswoman said Whitson was cleaned to work the third base for Sunday’s rubber match after he felt better on Saturday night.

A staff member at Wrigley Field also had a heat -related medical issue after the match was finished, a Cubs spokeswoman told AP. The individual could walk off the field on his own.

With the temperature that is expected to be even higher in Chicago for the final match of the series on Sunday, the Cubs plan to bring in a city bus to use as a cooling station next to the stadium – in addition to the cooling and miss stations already present for Saturday’s game.

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The Milwaukee Brewers’ 9-0 victory over the Minnesota twin on Target Field was played under an excessive heat warning, but no players were noticeably ill.

A large part of the eastern half of the US enters the prediction of a period of dangerous heat Next week. More than 250 daily temperature records can be broken on Monday and Tuesday.

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