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Alfaro scratched with right knee soreness

Related Topics: Knee, Pain, Scratching, Gabe Kapler

ST. LOUIS -- Phillies catcher Jorge Alfaro was a late scratch with right knee soreness from Saturday's lineup against the Cardinals.

Alfaro left Friday's 12-4 loss to the Cardinals in the fifth inning. He suffered the injury after his foot slipped out from under him while he was running down a wild pitch.

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"He's going to be just fine, but that was precautionary as well," Phillies manager Gabe Kapler said after the game. "It was really kind of messy conditions out there. I just wanted to get him out of there to be cautious.