NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley left a Grapefruit League game Friday after a pitch hit him in the hand that he broke last season.
Riley got hit by a pitch from Jackson Rutledge in the first inning of the Braves’ game with the Washington Nationals. Riley held out his right hand immediately afterward in apparent pain before heading up the first-base line. Riley stayed in the game as a base runner but was removed when the Braves took the field in the top of the second inning.
The Braves announced that the two-time All-Star had been taken out of the game “as a precaution.