The Boston Crimson Sox have misplaced one more participant to damage. First baseman Triston Casas was positioned on the 10-day injured with a left rib pressure, the team announced Sunday. Catcher Tyler Heineman was known as up in a corresponding transfer.
Casas suffered the damage taking a swing in his first at-bat Saturday. He stayed in to complete the at-bat — Casas didn’t take one other swing and drew a stroll — after which was changed defensively within the subsequent half inning.
On Sunday, Cora mentioned Casas will head again to Boston for exams — the Crimson Sox are two video games right into a six-game, seven-day street journey by way of Pittsburgh and Cleveland — and he is involved will probably be a prolonged absence (via MassLive.com).
“He isn’t doing OK,” supervisor Alex Cora mentioned after the sport (by way of the Boston Herald). “… We’re checking on him, we’ll know extra over the course of the evening. When he got here in (after the at-bat), he mentioned ‘I can play protection, however you want any person to hit for me.'”
Casas, 24, owns a .244/.344/.513 batting line with six house runs within the early going this season. He has been an vital center of the order presence as accidents have taken gamers out and in of the lineup. Bobby Dalbec, who has been unable to cement himself as an on a regular basis participant the previous couple of years, is prone to step in at first base whereas Casas is sidelined.
On the place participant facet, the Crimson Sox are already with out second baseman Vaughn Grissom (hamstring pressure), utility man Romy Gonzalez (wrist sprain), outfielder Tyler O’Neill (concussion), and shortstop Trevor Story (shoulder surgical procedure). Third baseman Rafael Devers has been out and in of the lineup with shoulder and knee hassle as properly.
The Crimson Sox are additionally with out three rotation members: Lucas Giolito (elbow surgical procedure), Nick Pivetta (elbow pressure), and Garrett Whitlock (indirect pressure). They’ve a league-leading 12 gamers on the injured checklist and are sixth within the league with 185 man-games misplaced to damage. Now they’ve misplaced one among their prime hitters.
Boston is so brief on gamers now that they are carrying three catchers — Heineman, Reese McGuire, Connor Wong — as a result of they haven’t any different wholesome place gamers on the 40-man roster within the minors. They must lower somebody so as to add a brand new participant to the 40-man.
Regardless of all of the accidents, the Crimson Sox are two video games over .500 at 12-10. After all, that places them in final place within the brutal AL East. They lead MLB with a group 2.64 ERA.
