Milwaukee Brewers star Corbin Burnes left his team’s 7-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night with a left pectoral strain. Burnes picked up the strain in the fourth inning when placing a tag on Eugenio Suarez at the end of a rundown.
Despite trying to see out the game, Burnes left in the sixth inning. Still, Brewers manager Craig Counsell believes that Burnes’ injury is not severe in nature and that the pitcher could play in the next game depending on his recovery progress.
“I think it just kind of overstretched it. So I’m not really sure what happened,” Burnes said of his injured pectoral. “I didn’t feel it when it happened at the time. When I came back after the sixth warming up, I could feel starting to tighten up and kind of get crampy.” It was at this point that Burnes exited the game.
During his 5⅓ innings, Burnes allowed two runs on three hits with three strikeouts, thereby limiting the Mariners to three runs and handing the Brewers the win.
Counsell and Burnes have both confirmed that the next step now is to have the pitcher re-evaluated on Tuesday with the hopes that he will be able to return to play in the next game.
