WASHINGTON – For two days, Diamondbacks second baseman Brandon Drury had been trudging around Nationals Park before games, a hoodie covering his head. He had come down with a version of the illness that has been passed around the clubhouse the past few weeks, but Drury did not want it to keep him from doing his job. He wanted to be there for his teammates.
But by the late innings on Wednesday night, Drury could not persist. Dizzy and weak, he left the game in the seventh, the latest Diamondbacks player to miss time due to a flu bug that, through the season’s first 29 games, has been about the only thing capable of consistently slowing them down.