Eloy Jiménez’s exercise earlier than Thursday’s sport at Guaranteed Rate Field included some working, and the Chicago White Sox outfielder/designated hitter mentioned he feels “pretty normal” as he recovers from a low-grade left hamstring pressure.
Jiménez suffered the harm whereas working from first to 3rd within the seventh inning Monday, and the Sox positioned him on the 10-day injured listing retroactive to Tuesday.
“I felt something and I tried to finish the game, but it was hurting a little bit,” Jiménez mentioned. “But in the next two days, I’ve been feeling way better.”
The Sox mentioned Wednesday that Jiménez will miss an estimated two to a few weeks.
“I feel good,” Jiménez mentioned. “I don’t want anything like this to happen, but this is baseball and it is what it is.”
Sox supervisor Pedro Grifol is taking the glass-half-full view of the state of affairs.
“I look at it, the work that he put in in the offseason put him in a position where he came in today, two days after (it happened), and he’s running and he’s strong and he’s hitting,” Grifol mentioned earlier than Thursday’s 16-6 loss to sport the San Francisco Giants. “Things like which are going to occur. It’s a part of the sport. It may very well be the climate.
“The glass-half-full side of me tells me, ‘You know what? Good job in the offseason. Great job in the offseason. You put yourself in a position where you’re strong to recover from these types of injuries.’ We are all extremely optimistic that this is not going to take long.”
Jiménez agreed the offseason work was useful, saying he was accessible “if I needed to pinch hit or play today.”
Added Grifol: “It’s so early within the yr that you just’d at all times slightly err on the facet of warning than flip this factor into an extended time frame when it may very well be only a 10-day factor.
“He’s so valuable to us and he means so much to our lineup. We want to make sure that he’s healthy when we get him back on the field. Completely healthy.”
Jiménez’s mindset as he rebounds from the setback? “Just moving forward and try to do my best.”
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