It normally takes lots for Xander Bogaerts to overlook a house sport. The harm the Red Sox shortstop suffered in Sunday’s win over the Cubs was sufficient to maintain him out – at the least for someday.
Bogaerts was out of Monday’s Red Sox lineup as they started an enormous week and an enormous collection in opposition to the Rays after he suffered a left thigh laceration on Sunday in Chicago. After a late flight house to Boston, Bogaerts texted Red Sox supervisor Alex Cora on Monday morning to inform him he was nonetheless hurting.
“I always give Bogey the benefit of the doubt and as long as possible to see if he can go and he texted me early,” Cora mentioned. “It was my wake-up text, ‘I’m pretty sore.’ It is a pretty big cut. Hopefully he feels better tomorrow. We can use him.”
Bogaerts was lucky the harm wasn’t worse. He suffered it within the seventh inning on Sunday, when the Cubs had been trying a double steal. Christian Vazquez made an ideal throw to Bogaerts at second, the place the shortstop tagged out a sliding Willson Contreras, who was caught off the bottom. But Bogaerts got here away from the play hobbling after Contreras spiked him above his knee on the slide.
After just a few moments and a go to from the coach, Bogaerts left the sport on his personal energy.
“I was lucky it wasn’t my knee,” Bogaerts informed reporters after the sport. “That wouldn’t have been good at all.”
Injury updates
Kiké Hernandez is progressing effectively from the hip harm that’s saved the middle fielder out since June 8 to the purpose that he needs to be prepared for a rehab project someday this week. Cora believes Hernandez is over the harm and the main focus now’s constructing again up for his eventual return.
“Now it’s about the baseball side of it,” Cora mentioned. “He did everything possible to get to the point to where he is right now and now it’s just building up the baseball activity.”
Garrett Whitlock (hip) and Nathan Eovaldi (again) are each pitching to dwell hitters on Tuesday.
Michael Wacha was scratched from Monday’s begin as a result of a lifeless arm, however the Red Sox hope he can return later this week after he sees a physician.
“He’s going to get checked out (Monday) just in case there’s something going on,” Cora mentioned. “We don’t believe it’s something structural, just kind of like dead arm, hit the wall so hopefully we can push him back later in the week and go from there.”
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