DENVER -- As right-handed pitcher Ryan Feltner spent Saturday night in a local hospital after being hit in the head by a line drive, his Rockies teammates and Phillies opponents kept him in their thoughts.

Nick Castellanos¡¯ 92.7 mph liner in the second inning of the Phillies¡¯ 7-4 victory struck Feltner just above the right ear. After being attended to for several minutes on the mound, Feltner was able to walk off the field.

¡°He¡¯s under observation at a local hospital, undergoing a litany of exams and tests -- we¡¯ll know more in the morning,¡± Rockies manager Bud Black said.

Before his press conference, Black relayed the information he had to teammates who were still stunned by what they saw.

¡°It was a slider away and Castellanos barreled it up,¡± third baseman Ryan McMahon?said. ¡°It happened so quick. But it was good to see him walk off. He was a little dazed, for sure.

¡°As soon as the ball hit him, I don¡¯t even know where the ball went. All eyes went to him.¡±

Catcher Elias Díaz said, ¡°I just saw the ball hit his head -- I didn¡¯t know where. I asked him how he felt and just said, ¡®Stay there. Stay down.¡¯ It was something crazy.¡±

It¡¯s the third injury to a Rockies starter in short order. Righty Germán Márquez?underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery on his right elbow on Friday. Antonio Senzatela?left Wednesday¡¯s start at Pittsburgh with what has been diagnosed as a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in the right elbow. But Saturday¡¯s injury to Feltner was one of those rare and concerning sights.

The Phillies led, 4-0, as Feltner struggled with control with four first-inning walks. Bryce Harper -- whose two-run shot in the top of the ninth put the game away in much the same way his two-run double on Friday made the difference in a Phillies win -- doubled with two outs in the second before Castellanos came up.

¡°It happens, and then I felt like I was running to first base because it was my job,¡± Castellanos said. ¡°Instantly what I thought was, like, 'Holy [expletive], I hit him.' There was a part of me that wanted to go to the mound, but I guess the baseball player takes over and you go to first.

¡°As soon as I touched first, I turned around and was just really hoping that what happened didn't happen."

As Feltner dealt with the pain, it didn¡¯t matter which uniform a player was wearing.

¡°We don¡¯t want anybody to get hurt in that way,¡± D¨ªaz said. ¡°We are baseball players, we¡¯ve got different uniforms, but we¡¯re still human.¡±

Righty Peter Lambert, who threw 2 1/3 scoreless innings at Pittsburgh on Wednesday after Senzatela's exit, replaced Feltner and threw 3 1/3 scoreless frames with five strikeouts. Lefty Brent Suter added two more scoreless innings before the Phillies scored one in the eighth off Jake Bird?and benefited from Harper¡¯s homer in the ninth.