The Philadelphia Phillies removed two of their outfielders during Sunday’s spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles due to injuries.

Max Kepler and Brandon Marsh both left the game early and spoke to reporters after the contest to update their status.

Marsh left in the third inning after he slipped on the warning track in left-center field and landed on his left knee in the first inning and then did it again in the third inning. He said after the game that the warning track felt like it was “ice.”

Marsh described his injury as a bruised knee.

Both Kepler and Marsh said that if this had been a regular season game they would have continues. But, with the final week of spring training ahead, there was little reason for the pair to risk further injury.

Kepler signed a $10 million, one-year deal and is starting to look like a bargain for Philadelphia, which didn’t make any major moves to add slug to their lineup. But, Kepler has a solid track record in that area. He hit a career-high 36 home runs in 2019 and has hit 161 career home runs, with 20 or more in three separate seasons.

His power also manifests itself in gap power. In 10 MLB seasons he has 205 doubles and has at least 20 doubles in seven different seasons.

Marsh joined the Phillies in 2022 via a trade. He doesn’t have Kepler’s power, but he is a versatile outfielder who can play multiple positions and in doing so he allows Kyle Schwarber to stay in the designated hitter role and keep is estimable glove in the dugout.

Phillies Get Bad News as $13 Million Worth of Outfielders Banged Up in One Game

The Philadelphia Phillies won 95 games in 2024, their highest win total since 2012 when they notched 102 wins. But the end result was the same. Philadelphia was eliminated from the playoffs in the National League Division Series. In 2012 they were vanquished by the St. Louis Cardinals, last year by the New York Mets. In 2025, the Phillies are looking to get back to the playoffs for the fourth straight season, and take a shot at their first World Series victory since topping the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008 — which was only the second World Series championship in the 122-year history of the franchise.

The Phillies will be paying out more in player salaries than any other team except the Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers this year, so they would like some bang for their buck. But in a Spring Training game Sunday, all they got was banged up — to the tune of $13 million.

Marsh, Kepler Leave Game After Outfield Misadventures

That figure is the combined salaries of two outfielders expected to comprise two-thirds of Philadelphia’s Opening Day outfield, who suffered contact-related injuries in Sunday’s 12-1 win over Baltimore at the Orioles’ spring training home of Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida. In the offseason, the Phillies acquired former Minnesota Twins 10-year veteran Max Kepler on a one-year contract worth $10 million.

The other $3 million goes to 27-year-old Brandon Marsh, who avoided arbitration going into his fifth big league season by signing a one-year deal for the $3 million amount. Marsh was a second-round pick of the Los Angeles Angels in 2016, making his big league debut in 2021. But the following season, the Angels sent Marsh to Philadelphia in a one-to-one deal for catcher Logan O’Hoppe.