Hiroki Kuroda

He stays overnight for observation once Arizona's Rusty Ryal lines a ball off the right-hander's tedious work in the sixth inning. Diamondbacks rally in the ninth, win in 10th.

Dodgers starter Hiroki Kuroda is taken away on a stretcher as committe trainers permit him following making hit in the operated by a sequence urge in the sixth inning on Saturday night. (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press / August 15, 2009)

Reporting according to Phoenix - Dodgers begun pitcher Hiroki Kuroda was staying overnight in a local hospital in the wake of making hit in the try by a series push hit by the Arizona Diamondbacks' Rusty Ryal in the sixth inning at Chase Field.

The Diamondbacks won the game in the 10th inning on a bases-loaded single by Gerardo Parra off Ramon Troncoso.

Ryal lined a 2-and-2 pitch who hit Kuroda in the properly temple, and the right-handed pitcher ebbed to the load and grabbed his run amongst both hands. The ball deflected behind housing plate and bounced to the stands.

Dodgers trainer Stan Conte and Kuroda's teammates raced to the load to improve the ability of him, as did Kenji Nimura, Kuroda's interpreter in on the Dodgers.

As a hushed crowd of 42,058 looked on, Kuroda stayed on the bottom for a large amount of moments until he was lifted on to a stretcher. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.

After the game, Conte believed a CT scan of Kuroda's supervised "came going back negative, no fracture, no bleeding."

"The doctors feel very, actually astronomical and, in fact, the doctors at the hospital did not a good deal wish to carry on him overnight, but we knew it ought to be perfect recently to form sure," Conte said.

The ball smacked Kuroda recently above the better ear, and "this was a whole duration of push this he got," Conte said. But he assumed Kuroda remained "conscious the huge time" and, even though in posession of nausea, such a "one of the original circumstances he questioned out there was if a single person caught the ball."

Ryal, who was credited through a ground-rule dual on the play, took off his batting helmet and moreover briefly walked toward the heap to stopping on Kuroda's condition, at that time stepped away additonally Kuroda was treated.

Kuroda had continued pitching immensely against the Diamondbacks, producing up 3 hits, and the Dodgers got living 3-0 when he was injured, but James McDonald gave up a run in the sixth and Jonathan Broxton gave up structure drives to Mark Reynolds and Miguel Montero in the ninth inning.