Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. left Monday’s 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates with an apparent hamstring injury.
Guerrero was pulled from the sport after the sixth inning with what the workforce known as left hamstring tightness. Further specifics are usually not but recognized, although Guerrero had been overtly complaining about his hamstring all through the evening at PNC Park.
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After a base hit within the backside of the primary inning, Guerrero was noticed pointing at his hamstring and saying, “malo” towards somebody within the dugout. That interprets to “bad” in English.
Guerrero remained within the sport after that, and made a wild play at first the place he did the splits to make a catch and full the out, which could not have helped any. He popped proper again up after that play and jogged off the sector.
Guerrero had an RBI in his two at-bats of the evening earlier than he was pulled from the sport. The severity of his injury isn’t but recognized, however he is due to bear an MRI to “rule anything out,” supervisor John Schneider mentioned after the sport.
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Though the rating was tied when Guerrero left the sport, the Pirates pushed forward down the stretch after each Henry Davis and Jared Triolo scored on throwing errors. Davis hit a sacrifice fly within the eighth to herald Alexander Canario, too. That despatched them to the three-run win, which moved them to 53-73 on the season.
The Blue Jays now sit at 73-53 after the loss, which was their second straight. They now path the Detroit Tigers by simply half of a sport within the American League standings, however they nonetheless have a big lead over the Boston Red Sox within the AL East race. Monday’s contest was the primary of a three-game sequence with the Pirates in Pennsylvania.