Xander Bogaerts was again in Saturday’s lineup because the Red Sox averted a scare with their star shortstop.
Bogaerts was listed as day after day with decrease again discomfort after colliding with Alex Verdugo throughout a play within the eighth inning of Friday’s win. On a pop as much as brief left area, Bogaerts was backpedaling for the ball when Verdugo slid beneath him whereas additionally making an attempt to make the play, sending the shortstop crashing to the bottom on his again. He dropped the ball as he fell and was down in ache for a number of moments.
Bogaerts stayed within the recreation briefly earlier than popping out within the backside of the eighth. He had therapy and was feeling nicely sufficient to begin on Saturday.
“(He) called me this morning, asked me to give him a chance to see how he was moving,” Red Sox supervisor Alex Cora mentioned.
With an off day approaching Monday, it’s doable Bogaerts rests for Sunday’s recreation to offer him two days in a row, however Cora was going to attend to see how he felt after Saturday’s recreation.
“One of the things about Xander is that he doesn’t like off days,” Cora mentioned. “Not only because of the wall, but he feels this is home and I have to post at home. He told me that a few times throughout the years. But obviously we’ll be smart about it. If he needs two, we’ll give him two.”
Cora famous that Bogaerts’ technique of backpedaling on performs within the outfield is unconventional, however it works for him.
“He feels comfortable doing that,” Cora mentioned. “That’s the way he does it. It’s hard because there’s 35,000 people screaming. Usually as a second baseman, shortstop, you’re going sideways and you can kind of like feel it, feel where he’s at. He’s right there. … But that’s the way he’s done it his whole career and he’s actually really good at doing it.”
Now that they know he’s tremendous, Bogaerts was the sufferer of some teasing from Rafael Devers within the clubhouse after they arrived on Saturday.
“We’re just lucky that nothing serious happened,” Cora mentioned. “Now we can joke about it. Raffy was actually talking about Bogey early on today that he can play in the Premier League or La Liga with that reaction. Now we can laugh.”
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