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Stanton sits with sore side; Yelich back Friday?
- Updated: May 25, 2016
ST. PETERSBURG — Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton was kept out of the lineup Wednesday at Tropicana Field with right side soreness.
Miami manager Don Mattingly said Stanton experienced the soreness sometime during the Marlins’ loss to the Rays on Tuesday in Miami. Mattingly saw Stanton, who went 1-for-4 with a home run and one strikeout in the defeat, tugging on his right side early in the game. Mattingly said the soreness wasn’t a result of Stanton’s final at-bat, which resulted in a groundout to third base in the seventh inning.
Ichiro Suzuki, who has been handling left field the past few days with Christian Yelich hurt, started in right field on Wednesday in Stanton’s absence. Cole Gillespie started in left.
“He didn’t really say that it came from any one thing,” Mattingly said of Stanton. “I just noticed him early in the game kind of tugging on it, rubbing on it. … This is something that, hopefully, it’s not something major, it’s a day or two.”
Stanton, 26, …
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