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- Updated: September 29, 2016
WASHINGTON — Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy is unlikely to play again during the regular season, aside from maybe a pinch-hit opportunity, manager Dusty Baker said Thursday.
Murphy has missed almost two weeks with strained buttocks, but Baker said he’s “getting better, big-time.”
“We’re shooting for him to be ready on the seventh,” Baker said, referring to Game 1 of the NLDS. “He might get a pinch-hit, but I don’t want to take him backwards.”
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Baker said the team might hold an intrasquad game between the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason to get Murphy some at-bats against live pitching. The second baseman, who ranks second in the NL with a .347 average, has been hitting in the cage while he waits for his injury to …
