MILWAUKEE — Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier Báez stuck his left ring finger in the air and grinned when asked about the injury that kept him out of Sunday's series finale against the Baltimore Orioles.
He was joking around.
"I don't want to show it to you," Báez said. "It's the middle one."
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The finger in question — his left middle finger — isn't swollen anymore.