Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. left Monday’s 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates early with an apparent hamstring injury.
Guerrero was pulled late from the game after the sixth inning with what the team called left hamstring tightness. Further specifics are not yet known, though Guerrero had been openly complaining about his hamstring throughout the night at PNC Park.
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After a base hit in the bottom of the first inning, Guerrero was spotted pointing at his hamstring and saying, “malo” toward someone in the dugout. That translates to “bad” in English.
Guerrero remained in the game after that, and made a wild play at first where he did the splits to make a catch and complete the play, which couldn’t have helped any. He popped right back up after that play and jogged off the field.
Guerrero had an RBI in his two at-bats of the night before he was pulled from the game. The severity of his injury is not yet known.
Though things were tied up when Guerrero left the game, the Pirates pushed ahead down the stretch after both Henry Davis and Jared Triolo scored on throwing errors. Davis hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth to bring in Alexander Canario, too. That sent them to the three-run win, which moved them to 53-73 on the season.
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The Blue Jays now sit at 73-53 after the loss, which was their second straight. They now trail the Detroit Tigers by just half of a game in the American League standings, but they still have a significant lead over the Boston Red Sox in the AL East race. Monday’s contest was the first of a three-game series with the Pirates in Pennsylvania.