Cubs place Kyle Tucker on injured list because of strained left calf

The Chicago Cubs placed All-Star correct fielder Kyle Tucker connected nan 10-day injured database because of a strained near calf, a move retroactive to Saturday.

Tucker has not played since Sept. 2. He is eligible to beryllium activated connected Sept. 16.

"It was conscionable a small worse coming than it was yesterday,” Cubs head Craig Counsell said earlier Tuesday night's crippled against Atlanta. “Yesterday was a really bully day, conscionable didn't person immoderate advancement today. He wasn't comfortable playing, truthful we said, ‘We person to springiness this a small much time.’”

Tucker is hitting .270 pinch a team-best .854 OPS. He has 22 location runs successful his first twelvemonth pinch nan Cubs aft 7 seasons pinch Houston.

“I don't deliberation thing has gotten worse,” Counsell said. “We conscionable person to get to a constituent wherever he's not symptomatic and past not emotion it doing shot activities.”

Catcher Moisés Ballesteros was recalled from Triple-A Iowa.

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