Heyward injured making spectacular catch

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SAN FRANCISCO — It only hurt when Dexter Fowler made him laugh. Wrapped with ice in elastic bandages, Cubs right fielder Jason Heyward talked about his catch, a diving catch that produced an out but cost him the rest of the game in Friday’s 8-1 victory over the Giants.

Fowler, sitting in the next locker, was trying to humor him. Heyward had to turn away to keep from laughing.

“There’s some pain,” he said a few hours after his spectacular grab on Denard Span’s first-inning drive to deep center sent him crashing up against the wall. “Not sharp but a little more than dull. What happened was the lower rib-cage bone and the hip bone hit each other when I was pushed up against the wall.”

Heyward will have an MRI performed on his right side Saturday to determine if there is any structural …

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