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Urena was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans on Thursday, Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post reports.

The Marlins DFA'd the struggling Chris Narveson on Thursday, and Urena will come up from New Orleans to fill his spot on the roster. The young right-hander struggled in 20 big league games, including nine starts, in 2015, and he's off to a shaky start at Triple-A this season, allowing nine hits and seven earned runs in 10 cumulative innings. Expect the 24-year-old to pitch primarily in low-to-medium-leverage situations.

Greinke (1-2) collected his first win of the year Wednesday with 6.2 sharp innings against the Giants, allowing just one run on six hits and a walk while striking out seven.

After a pair of ugly starts to open the season, Greinke's settled things down with a pair of complementary quality outings. He's not going to match last season's otherworldly ratios -- he probably won't even come close -- but that doesn't mean Greinke won't again be among the best pitchers in baseball when all's said and done this year. The veteran righty will look to keep the good times rolling against the Cardinals on Monday.

Stripling gave up three runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks while striking out four Wednesday against Atlanta.

Although this was an ugly outing, considering he threw 76 pitches and didn't finish four frames, Stripling at least avoided the loss thanks to this game going to extra innings. He also was fortunate that the bullpen stranded a couple baserunners for him. Stripling looked good in his first two starts of the year, but this was a surprising step back against a bad team. He'll get a chance for redemption Monday against the Marlins.

Teheran allowed two runs over 5.1 innings Wednesday in a no-decision against the Dodgers. He struck out three without a walk while allowing six hits.

Although not amazing, this outing certainly represents some progress for Teheran after he got touched up for 11 runs in his last two outings. Walks and long balls have been his bugaboo this year, and he was able to avoid both in this one. However, he was pulled after just 75 pitches, likely because of the illness that got his start pushed back to Wednesday in the first place. He'll look to go deeper in his next start, Monday against Boston.

Hendricks (1-2) allowed four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks in a loss Wednesday versus the Cardinals.

St. Louis got to him for two runs in the first and two more in the second. After that, Hendricks retired seven of the next nine batters he faced. Through three starts, the strikeout numbers have been pretty consistent for the right-hander, as he's recorded five in each game. Hendricks will make his next start Tuesday versus the Brewers.

Martinez pitched seven innings and allowed one run on three hits in Wednesday's victory over the Cubs. He also struck out five and walked three.

A nearly three and a half hour rain delay is actually what knocked Martinez out of the game although there is a chance he wouldn't have pitched the eighth anyway because he did throw 97 pitches. The one run Martinez on Wednesday allowed was a solo homer. He's tossed up two bombs in the last two games, but overall opposing hitters are batting just .178 against Martinez. He will go for his fourth win in four starts on Tuesday against Arizona.

DeSclafani (oblique) will start his rehab assignment Saturday for Double-A Pensacola.

DeSclafani is expected to be back sooner than teammates Homer Bailey and John Lamb, who are also on or beginning to start their rehab assignments soon.

Soroka, 18, has a 2.40 ERA and 18:3 K:BB through 15 innings for Low-A Rome.

A first round pick in 2015, Soroka has lived up to the billing thus far in his brief career. Perhaps most impressively, he has walked just eight batters in 49 professional innings.

Perez was optioned to Triple-A on Wednesday, MLB.com's Mark Bowman reports.

It was probably only a matter of time before his rotation spot was in jeopardy, and now that is becoming a reality. Aaron Blair, who is coming off his best Triple-A start to date on Tuesday, and Mike Foltynewicz would both be on enough rest to jump into the rotation for Sunday's start against the Mets. Perez could serve as a spot starter going forward, but it seems unlikely that he will see a prolonged run of big league starts this season.

Teheran (illness) has been confirmed as Wednesday's starter against the Dodgers, David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Teheran was slated to get the start Tuesday, but a fever that developed Monday evening caused the Braves to push his start back by one day. He will be taking the hill Wednesday against Ross Stripling and the Dodgers in the second game of their series. Teheran has allowed 10 earned runs in his last two starts and he's been susceptible to giving up the long ball this season. Fortunately, the Dodgers rank in the bottom five in all of baseball in that category with just eight combined home runs on the year.