CLEVELAND: Indians manager Terry Francona underwent a cardiac ablation procedure on Thursday to correct an irregular heartbeat, the club announced.
The successful procedure was performed at the Cleveland Clinic. Per the Indians in a release, Francona is expected to make a full recovery and will be discharged within a day or two. He is expected to resume managing on Friday, July 14, when the Indians travel to Oakland following the All-Star break.
Thus far, Francona has missed four full games (the last three and June 27) and parts of two other games first due to symptoms that he reported as light headedness and an elevated heart rate and then to undergo further tests at the Cleveland Clinic to try to diagnose what was causing them.