RHP David Phelps was reinstated from the bereavement list and tossed 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief on Friday. Phelps is 2-2 with a 3.42 ERA in 21 relief appearances this season. He has struck out 25 batters in 23 innings. But he has also allowed 22 hits, including three homers, and eight walks.

RHP David Phelps was placed on the bereavement list Tuesday because of a death in his family and missed Miami's 11-9 victory at Oakland. He will rejoin the Marlins on Friday night for the opener of a three-game series against the Angels at Marlin Park. Phelps is 2-2 with a 3.68 ERA in 20 relief appearances.

RHP David Phelps was placed on the bereavement list after a death in the family. He will miss the team's two-game series against the Oakland Athletics.

RHP David Phelps, who was so good for Miami last year, is struggling. He inherited a one-run lead in the eighth inning on Thursday, but he gave up a run, and his ERA is up to 6.00 in five appearances this season.

RHP David Phelps, 29, is the team's wild card. He can pitch in any role and was effective this year as a starter and as an eighth-inning guy. Given the Marlins' lack of quality options for starting pitching, it appears likely that Phelps will open games in 2017 along with Tom Koehler, Adam Conley, Wei-Yin Chen and whatever the team can find in free agency and/or trades. Phelps was 7-6 with a 2.28 ERA this year.

RHP David Phelps could be the first MLB pitcher since Bill Swift in 1990 to start at least five games, save at least four, pitch at least 80 innings and post an ERA under 2.50 in the same year. Phelps' has done everything on the list, and his ERA is 2.40 so far.

RHP David Phelps pitched twice in the Atlanta series after being activated from the disabled list. Phelps threw a combined 1 1/3 innings and did not allow a run.

RHP David Phelps was activated Sunday after spending the minimum 15 days on the disabled list due to an oblique strain. He is 7-6 with three saves and a 2.52 ERA in 55 games (five starts) for Miami this year.

RHP David Phelps (oblique) has started soft-tossing. Phelps has been valuable this year as a starter (2.22 ERA) and as a reliever (2.65 ERA), and the Marlins hope to get him back before the season ends.

RHP David Phelps (oblique strain) was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, retroactive to Aug. 27. Phelps was the Marlins' scheduled starting pitcher for Wednesday until he got hurt during batting practice Tuesday. Manager Don Mattingly said the Marlins hope it is a mild strain for Phelps since he stopped swinging immediately after feeling pain. Phelps said he hoped to miss just one more start and return as soon as he is eligible on Sept. 10. He is 7-6 with a 2.52 ERA in 55 games (five starts) this season.

RHP David Phelps will look to bounce back from his worst start of the season when he takes the mound for the Marlins on Wednesday against the Mets at Citi Field. Phelps didn't factor into the decision last Friday, when he allowed four runs (three earned) on two hits and three walks while striking out six over 3 2/3 innings as the Marlins beat the Padres 7-6. It was the shortest of the five starts Phelps has made since he entered the rotation on Aug. 5. He allowed a total of three runs over his first four starts, a span of 20 2/3 innings. Phelps is 1-4 with a 7.00 ERA in 11 games (five starts) against the Mets.

P David Phelps surpassed 100 strikeouts in a season for the first time in his career. Phelps' six strikeouts against the Padres gave him 101, surpassing the 96 during his rookie season with the New York Yankees in 2012.

RHP David Phelps had a season-high eight strikeouts against the Reds. His career high is nine, which came on April 26, 2013, as a member of the Yankees against the Blue Jays. Five of his strikeouts were called looking.

RHP David Phelps (5-6) threw 91 pitches in his second start of the season, holding the Giants to one run in five innings. Phelps allowed four hits and three walks, striking out five, but he took a hard-luck loss.

RHP David Phelps made his first start of the season after a career-high 50 relief appearances. According to STATS LLC, David Weathers is the only Marlins' pitcher to make his first start of the season with more relief appearance. He made his first start of the 2004 season on Sept. 20 after 62 relief outings. Phelps allowed four singles in 4 1/3 scoreless innings with one walk and four strikeouts and threw 70 pitches. He was on a limit of about 70 pitches after throwing 55 pitches in his last relief outing on July 30. "I'd say it's as good as I could ask for," said Phelps, who retired the final six batters he faced. "The biggest thing is we won. I knew I wasn't going to be in there that long (to earn the victory). I started mixing in some changeups and curveballs the second time through the lineup. I got them off my fastball, which was the biggest thing. The first time through was a lot of fastballs and cutters. I was working myself into some counts where I wasn't putting guys away. I was ahead of guys pretty much all day, wasn't really trusting my stuff early on."

RHP David Phelps (5-5, 2.65 ERA) switches from the bullpen to spot starter on Friday when the Miami Marlins open a three-game weekend series on Friday in Colorado. The start will be his first since 2015. So far this season Phelps has made all 50 appearances in relief, posting a 5-5 record, four saves and a 2.65 ERA over 54 1/3 innings pitched. A 29-year-old veteran of five big league seasons, Phelps picked up the win in his last outing on July 30, a 2 2/3 inning effort against the Cardinals.

RHP David Phelps, who had been outstanding this season as Miami's eighth-inning set-up man, has hit a rough patch, allowing at least one run in three of his past five appearances. He has an 8.10 ERA during that span, which includes five walks and two homers allowed. On Sunday, he wasn't asked to do much -- just one batter -- and he got his man.

RHP David Phelps has converted on 17 of 21 (81.0 percent) of his hold tries this season. One of those blown holds came on Tuesday, when he entered the game with a 2-0 lead to start the eighth inning and quickly gave up a two-run homer to Jace Peterson. Overall, though, Phelps has had a solid year making the transition from spot starter/long reliever to set-up man for closer A.J. Ramos. Phelps is 4-4 with a 2.48 ERA.

RHP David Phelps saw his eight-game scoreless streak end when he allowed two runs to the Braves on Friday. Phelps (3-3) is now 0-2 in four career appearances against Atlanta.

RHP David Phelps struck out the side in the eighth, giving up a single but otherwise dominating to lower his season ERA to 1.33 with his 11th hold. It was his eighth consecutive scoreless appearance, each of exactly one inning. In that span, he has allowed seven hits and one walk while striking out 12.