Cubs News: Kris Bryant injury update, ruled out for Wednesday's game |
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Kris Bryant was eligible to be activated from the 10-day disabled list with his right shoulder inflammation injury on Tuesday.
However, after a pre-game workout, he felt a 'twinge' in his shoulder and will not be activated on Wednesday as previously planned. "He still felt it (twinge) a little bit so he's not going to play tomorrow," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said after Tuesday's 5-3 win. "I just want the guy to be well. I’m loving the break he’s getting right now – over the last couple years, all the work that he’s put in." It appears that Bryant will be looking at Friday's game at the earliest to be activated from his disabled list. Hopefully, with the day-off on Wednesday and the off-day on Thursday, he might be ready for Friday's game. Bryant recently told reporters that he hurt his shoulder on a head-first slide more than a month ago. "I didn’t think anything of it,” Bryant said about the slide. “Maybe I tried to play through it and came back too quick. It got better. Nothing debilitating, but just swinging more stuff like that is likely to flare up, and that’s what it did.” For the season, Bryant is batting .280 with 20 doubles, three triples, nine homers and 36 RBI in 66 games this season. In other Cubs injury news, Maddon told reporters that C.J. Edwards will do one more rehab outing at Triple-A while Yu Darvish received a cortisone shot recently.
