RHP Shelby Miller (right index finger) is schedule to make his second rehab start Tuesday at Class A Visalia before a possible return to the starting rotation, manager Chip Hale said. Miller retired the first 15 batters he faced, giving up two hits in six shutout innings of a rehab start for Class A Visalia last Thursday. "Facing A ball guys, so you can't really base too much off of what you do," Miller said, "but more so past the numbers, more of how I felt. I felt good mechanically. I threw a lot of strikes and got ahead in the count. That was really the main thing. Everything felt a little bit smoother." Miller is likely to make his second rehab start with Visalia, also, while getting his pitch count up to about 100. "Just keep refining everything, making sure his stuff is crisp," Hale said. "Get his pitch count up again to where we want it.

RHP Shelby Miller (finger) is expected to make one more rehab start before a possible return to the starting rotation, manager Chip Hale said.

RHP Shelby Miller (right index finger) gave up two hits and struck out 11 in six scoreless innings in a rehab start for Class A Visalia on Thursday, an appearance that could hasten his return to the Diamondbacks' rotation. "That's another decision we are going to have to make, whether he goes another one (rehab) or he is our next start the next time around," manager Chip Hale said. Hale said the D-backs will likely make that call by the weekend. Miller touched 95 mph with his fastball, Hale said.

RHP Shelby Miller (right index finger) is scheduled to make a rehab start Thursday for Class A Visalia, his first rehab start since going on the disabled list retroactive to May 25. He threw 60 pitches in an extended spring training game Saturday. "I'm ready to make that start, then see where I'm at, and be ready to get back here," Miller said. "In a high-A league, when hitters are taking serious at-bats, that will show me more how I am doing more than the last one." Arizona special assistant Dave Duncan watched Miller's bullpen session last week. The two have known each other from their time in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization. "He gave me some tips, but nothing dramatic that I had to change big time," Miller said. "It was nice to have him there, someone who has seen me since 2009. Miller is scheduled to throw about 85 pitches Thursday and is likely to need another rehab start before returning, manager Chip Hale said. "I'm sure we want to try to get him to 100" pitches during his rehab time, Hale said. Miller 1-6 with a 7.09 ERA in 10 starts.

RHP Shelby Miller (index finger) is scheduled to make a rehab start for Class A Visalia on Thursday. Miller has been on the disabled list retroactive to May 25.

RHP Shelby Miller (index finger) is expected to make his next appearance in a minor league rehab start this week, manager Chip Hale said. Miller threw 60 pitches in five scoreless innings in an extended spring training game last Saturday. "We'll see how he feels and get his pitch count back up," Hale said. Miller is eligible to return from the disabled list June 10, but it appears the plan is to wait at least one more week.

RHP Shelby Miller (sprained right index finger) threw five scoreless innings at extended spring training Saturday during his rehab. Miller will make at least one more rehab start with one of the D-backs' minor-league teams before he is activated, Hale said. Miller went on the 15-day DL May 27, retroactive to May 25.

RHP Shelby Miller, on the 15-day disabled list because of a sprained right index finger, is scheduled to start an extended spring training game on Saturday.

RHP Shelby Miller threw a side session Wednesday and is scheduled to pitch in an extended spring training game Saturday. Miller is on the 15-day disabled list with a right index finger sprain. Miller is 1-6 with a 7.09 ERA in 10 starts this season.

RHP Shelby Miller threw a side session on Wednesday and will pitch in an extended spring training game on Saturday. Miller is on the 15-day disabled list with a right index finger sprain.

RHP Shelby Miller (sprained finger) could be ready to return to the rotation the next time through, Arizona manager Chip Hale said.

RHP Shelby Miller (sprained finger) could be ready to return to the rotation when he is eligible after the Diamondbacks' off day on June 9, manager Chip Hale said. "We were hoping that Shelby might be back by then," Hale said. "We'll see." Miller was placed on the disabled list Friday, retroactive to May 25.

RHP Shelby Miller (right index finger sprain) has continued to throw since being placed on the the disabled list Friday. While there is no timetable for his return, it could be sooner rather than later. "It wasn't that it was too painful to throw. It was just his strength," Arizona manager Chip Hale said. "Every time he throws, he tests that strength." The next step for Miller could be an appearance in an extended spring training game, Hale said.

RHP Shelby Miller (sprained finger) was placed on the disabled list Friday because of the injury that cropped up when he scraped his hand on the mound during several deliveries in an April 16 start at San Diego. He has made seven starts since. "It is time to get him 100 percent," manager Chip Hale said. "His feel for the ball has not been as good as he want it. We need to get him right and back into the number two hole for us. We still believe he can be that after this injury is healed. We need to get it to full resolution is what I'm saying. He's obviously pitched with it and thrown hard with it, but he hasn't had the control that he needs." Miller is 1-6 with a 7.09 ERA and a 1.88 WHIP.

RHP Shelby Miller (finger) was placed on the disabled list Friday. Miller is 1-6 with a 7.09 ERA in 10 starts this year.He injured his hand on the Petco Park mound twice during his follow-through on April 16. He left the game in the second inning.

RHP Shelby Miller continues to struggle because he's eating up one-third of a start's worth of pitches in lengthy innings. He did so again Monday, needing 32 pitches to get out of the first inning -- 20 before retiring an out. Four of the first five Pirates batters reached base against Miller, who is 2-7 in his career against Pittsburgh.

RHP Shelby Miller gets the start Tuesday night when Arizona starts a three-game series in Pittsburgh. Miller absorbed a 4-2 loss Wednesday night to the Yankees, allowing 10 hits and three runs in 5 2/3 innings. The former Cardinal has historically fared poorly against the Pirates, going 2-6, 4.29 in nine career starts as Pittsburgh has feasted on his fastball.

RHP Shelby Miller continues to struggle at Chase Field -- where he has allowed eight of his nine home runs this season -- and against Yankees OF Jacoby Ellsbury, who is now 6-for-6 lifetime against him after getting three hits Wednesday. The last one came in the sixth inning in a 2-1 game, when Arizona manage Chip Hale left Miller in to face Ellsbury a fourth time, and Ellsbury delivered an RBI single to give New York. Miller surrendered three runs on 10 hits in 5 2/3 innings.

RHP Shelby Miller apologized to manager Chip Hale immediately afterward about his quickish exit from the mound during a pitching change in sixth inning on Friday. Miller left the mound before Hale came to the rubber to take him out in a 3-1 game, three batters after Miller gave up a three-run homer to Giants 2B Joe Panik. "We talked right after," Hale said. "He said right away he was sorry. He really didn't even realize what he was doing. His character as a teammate and as player through the tough times he has had at the start of this year, that (quick exit) is not who he is. I know that." Miller is 1-4 with a 6.94 ERA in eight starts and 35 innings this season.

RHP Shelby Miller pitched five scoreless innings while inducing a career-high three double play grounders before giving up three runs on a three-run homer on a 3-0 pitch to Giants 2B Joe Panik in the sixth inning. "The last thing I'm thinking is he was going to be swinging three-oh," Miller said. "I was just trying to get back in the count. Just throw a strike there and left it down the middle." Miller was replaced with two outs in the sixth, and he left the mound just as manager Chip Hale was arriving. "You don't like to see it, because for me it is almost like you are getting shown up," Hale said. "But I understand he is upset about giving up the home run." Miller: "Just frustrated about giving up three runs in one inning," said Miller, who induced a career-high three double play grounders. Miller has given up 21 earned runs and seven homers in 25 1-3 innings in five starts at Chase Field this season, losing four. He tripled and scored in the last of the fifth for the D-backs' only run.