Cubs' Willson Contreras Exits vs. Brewers After suffering apparent Leg injury
Contreras got here up limping and grabbed the back of his proper leg as he ran out of the box on a lineout in the backside of the 7th inning:
The extent of the harm has now not been decided, even though Jordan Bastian of MLB.Com reported after the sport Contreras will undergo an MRI on his right hamstring Monday.
He went zero-for-3 in a 4-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Contreras is within the midst of his 2d consecutive All-superstar campaign, one that saw him input the day hitting .277/.368/.531 with 19 home runs and fifty seven RBI in 86 games. Sadly for him, he had cooled off because the All-superstar spoil, hitting simply .194 in 10 second-half appearances, consisting of Saturday.
He has thrown out 12 of forty one runners (29.3 percentage) on thieve tries this season.
Chicago's roster is complete of flexible gamers who can play a couple of positions, however the group is pretty skinny at catcher. After the club dealt veteran Martin Maldonado to the Houston Astros at the exchange cut-off date Wednesday, 25-yr-antique Victor Caratini (.247 average in one hundred fifty five profession video games) sits in the back of Contreras at the depth chart.
Chicago (59-51) is tied for first in the country wide League important and sits a half of-recreation ahead within the wild-card race as it vies for its fifth consecutive playoff berth.