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Molina, Carpenter day to day after exiting early
- Updated: August 7, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Perennial All-Stars Yadier Molina and Matt Carpenter left the Cardinals’ 13-5 loss to the Braves on Saturday with injuries.
Molina took a foul ball off his right middle finger.
“Just more of a bruise on his throwing hand,” manager Mike Matheny said. “Just one of those things that tightened up to where he couldn’t grip the bat or the ball how he needed to, but [we] had him looked at and everything came back negative.”
Carpenter’s status wasn’t as clear. He was slow getting off the field after his at-bat in the bottom of the fifth and was replaced by Kolten Wong. Carpenter just came off the disabled list Friday after missing 24 games with a right lat strain.
“Carp just didn’t look right so we made a decision to get him out of there, but he’s checking out fine with the medical team,” Matheny said.
Carpenter was slow coming off the field after his fifth inning at-bat. Matheny said it looked like he wasn’t finishing his swing and he also looked tentative in the …
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