Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts' confidence in wrist is '99.9' percent as he attempts to play for the first time since Saturday
The Padres’ $280 million shortstop is back in the lineup Friday to start ad. He will bat fifth and play shortstop in his first action since exiting Saturday with continued wrist discomfort.
Bogaerts pegged his confidence level in the health of his wrist at “99.9” percent after testing it in the cage Friday afternoon. The Padres were off Thursday and Bogaerts hadn’t swung a bat since Tuesday in hopes that rest and treatment would ease his pain.“I hit in the cage to see how it feels,” Bogaerts said Friday afternoon. “With this, always the first time you hit, you’re always a little nervous because you know how you feel, you know what it is. Yeah, I feel pretty good.
Bogaerts left Saturday’s game with continued discomfort in his balky left wrist and had not played since. He is hitting .204/.295/.303 with three homers and 37 strikeouts in 38 games since he was hit on the left wrist by a pitch on April 18. Friday’s first pitch is at 5:40 p.m., weather permitting, but there does not appear to be an imminent threat.
Light rain and thunderstorms, however, are in the forecast all weekend, but the Padres hit on the field and the tarp was left on the sideline during early work ahead of the start of the first of two Padres trips to Coors Field.
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