The Oakland A’s have kept their injured list from getting too long lately, but Thursday brought a worrisome development.
Outfielder Mark Canha exited the game Thursday with a hip strain, reports insider Justice delos Santos. He will have an MRI on Friday.
Canha started in LF and came to bat twice, but he was removed in the 3rd inning. The previous evening he’d gotten the day off, but did enter late as a pinch-hitter. More details from manager Bob Melvin, via Matt Kawahara of the S.F. Chronicle:
“We had [Wednesday] kind of planned for him anyway, for one day off on the turf, but after a couple at-bats today [the sore hip] bothered him enough to where he had to take himself out of the game,” Melvin said.