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Trea Turner to be re-evaluated Saturday, expects to miss ‘at least a couple days’

Trea Turner left Friday’s game with an injury. (Don Otto/Phillies Nation)

Trea Turner made the type of heads up play on the basepaths Friday night against the San Francisco Giants that makes him one of the most exciting offensive players in the sport. But it may have come at a cost.

The Philadelphia Phillies shortstop scored from second on a passed ball in the bottom of the fourth inning, using a strong secondary lead and world-class speed to, no pun intended, steal a run.

However, he walked gingerly back to the dugout after scoring the run, and was replaced by Edmundo Sosa at shortstop the next inning. The Phillies later announced that Turner departed with left hamstring soreness.

After the game, Turner was asked about his level of concern regarding his hamstring.

“I don’t know, I’ve never really had anything like this to be honest with you,” Turner said. “They seem pretty positive in the training room. So I was pretty happy with that, or at least more positive than what I thought. I’m definitely feeling it, but we’ll see and take it day-by-day because like I said, I don’t really know.”

It’s unclear if Turner — who is hitting .343 with an .852 OPS — will require an injured list stint, but he conceded that he doesn’t expect to be in the lineup Saturday evening.

“Yeah, at least a couple days,” Turner said postgame. “We’ll see tomorrow. I’m gonna do some more testing tomorrow and figure it out. But yeah, probably a few days.”

Turner did go on the injured list in 2017 with a hamstring strain while playing with the Washington Nationals, but that was to his right hamstring. This is soreness in the left hamstring, and he said postgame that it wasn’t isolated higher or lower on the hamstring — which can sometimes be an indicator of the severity —but rather “just kind of in the middle.”

It’s unclear exactly what ripple effect a Turner injury would have on the middle infield. Something like having Bryson Stott play shortstop probably isn’t in the cards if it’s only a couple games, but maybe becomes a consideration if Turner is out for a more extended period of time. What is certain, though, is that the 30-year-old is already itching to get back on the field.

“I hate being hurt,” Turner said. “I hate being hurt and I promise you that it’s not gonna be fun for the training staff because I just wear them out. So they’ll want me on the field more than I want to be on the field, probably.”