CHICAGO -- A's outfielder Billy Burns, sidelined by a right hamstring strain, could be back on the field by the end of the weekend, having shown enough improvement while undertaking a series of baseball activities in Chicago this week.
Burns did a sequence of sprints at U.S. Cellular Field on Thursday morning and, barring any setbacks, could be cleared for game action this weekend in Houston.
"[Wednesday] was the best he's felt," manager Bob Melvin said Thursday. "The previous couple days, he ran OK, felt it a little bit but [Wednesday] was the first day he didn't feel it a little bit.