It started last week in Peoria, where Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong, rehabbing a left elbow strain, felt something amiss in his right arm. Wong came out of that game for precautionary reasons but a couple of days later was back in St. Louis, where he immediately started a hitting streak of six games after coming off the disabled list.
But, Wong, after singling in his first at-bat on Wednesday, raising his average to .301 , the first time in a long time he has been at that level, tried to check his swing in his next at-bat.