Carl Crawford Injury: Red Sox Outfielder Returns To Lineup

Crawford’s season line is at .243/.275/.384, which doesn’t sound great, but it is worlds better than the .155/.204/.227 line he featured at the end of April.

The Red Sox start the second half of the season in Crawford’s old haunt down in Tropicana Field on Friday. Crawford had just one hit in 10 at-bats when he faced his former team in June.

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Francona: Crawford likely to go on a rehab assignment after All-Star break, return after the series on turf at Tropicana Field.

A day after straining his hamstring while running out a grounder against the Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford is hitting the disabled list. From the Boston Herald’s Michael Silverman:

After getting off to his disappointing start this season, Boston’s top free agency prize in the off-season has righted the ship, having slapped a .794 OPS since May 1st.

So that’s a grade 1 hamstring strain, meaning the least severe kind of hamstring strain. That’s good news for the Red Sox, because it means nothing major is wrong.

Crawford has since been diagnosed with a hamstring strain, and while the severity isn’t yet known, it’s probably unlikely that he’ll play on Saturday, at the very least. Crawford has heated up at the plate since a godawful start to the season, so it would be a blow to the Red Sox if he has to miss more than a day or three.