Segura, Ahmed hit in head by Bucs’ Caminero

PITTSBURGH — Pirates right-hander Arquimedes Caminero hit two D-backs players in the head during his 1 2/3 innings of relief in Tuesday night’s 12-1 Pittsburgh victory, sending second baseman Jean Segura to a local hospital with concussion symptoms and leaving the indentation of a baseball seam on the chin of shortstop Nick Ahmed.

It also left D-backs manager Chip Hale questioning whether Caminero belonged in the big leagues.

“You know what, when guys get hit in the head and they get hit in the face, there’s no place for that in the game,” Hale said. “And if the guy is not trying to do it, then he shouldn’t be here at this level. If you can’t have enough control to not hit people up there, it’s just not acceptable. Especially twice in one game.”

Caminero hit Segura in the side of the head with a 96-mph fastball with one out in the seventh inning.

Segura lay face down on the ground briefly while being attended to by assistant athletic trainer Ryan DiPanfilo. He managed to walk off the field under his own power, but once he got into the training room he began showing signs of having a concussion and he was taken to a nearby hospital for tests.

D-backs reliever Evan Marshall hit Pirates third baseman David Freese in the shoulder with a pitch in the bottom half of the inning and home-plate umpire Larry Vanover issued warnings to both teams.

In the top of the eighth …

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