Marcelo Mayer leaves Red Sox game with right wrist injury
A downcast Mayer, wearing a brace on his right wrist after the game, said he expects to have an MRI and is hopeful the injury is not a serious one.
'I don't know right now,' he said. 'I just iced it. It feels in some pain but hopefully it's not too serious and I can get back on the field soon.'
Mayer kept Boston's fifth-inning rally alive against Phillies lefty Jesús Luzardo with a two-out walk that loaded the bases, then came around to score when Romy Gonzalez helped the Red Sox flip a 5-0 deficit into a 6-5 lead with a grand slam to left field. After the inning, he was replaced at third base by Abraham Toro. ESPN cameras caught Mayer pointing to the area of his wrist in the dugout after leaving the game.
'I just felt a little tight grab in my wrist when I took a swing in my second at-bat,' Mayer said. 'I knew I really couldn't do anything after that so I just called it (a game).'
Mayer, hitting ninth in the finale of a three-game series, struck out and walked before leaving the game. He was playing third base in place of Alex Bregman, who had a scheduled night off as he continues his cautious return from a quad strain. Mayer did not play in Tuesday's loss.
The Phillies took an early five-run lead Wednesday when Lucas Giolito tied a career-high by allowing four home runs in the first four innings. Then, the previously dominant Luzardo lost the strike zone in the fifth, issuing four walks (including two with the bases loaded) before Gonzalez's homer. The Red Sox won, 9-8, in 11 innings thanks to a Carlos Narváez two-run shot in the 10th.
Entering Wednesday, Mayer had hit .230 with four homers, eight doubles and a .673 OPS in 43 games while admirably manning both third base and second base.
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