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Jesse RogersSep 2, 2025, 11:41 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com.<\/p>\n CHICAGO — Cubs<\/a> star Kyle Tucker<\/a> left Tuesday night’s game against the Atlanta Braves<\/a> with left calf tightness not long after hitting a three-run homer in the team’s 4-3 victory.<\/p>\n After the game, Tucker indicated the calf has been bothering him for a few days.<\/p>\n “Felt it a decent amount coming in to today,” he said. “I tried some treatment so I could get ahead of it before the game. … It felt all right and then just as the game went, just got a little more sore (and) tight.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n Cubs manager Craig Counsell already ruled out Tucker for Wednesday’s series finale against the Braves. The Cubs are off Thursday, so Tucker will get a full two days’ rest before potentially returning Friday for the opener of a three-game series against the visiting Washington Nationals<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We just have to see how he feels on Friday and we will be cautious, absolutely here,” Counsell said.<\/p>\n Tucker hit his 22nd home run of the season, a three-run, opposite-field shot in the third inning off Braves starter Joey Wentz<\/a>. In the fifth inning, he singled and later was thrown out at second on a fielder’s choice. He then exited the game in the top of the seventh inning.<\/p>\n Willi Castro<\/a> took over for him in right field and could get the start there Wednesday. Another option is rookie Kevin Alcantara<\/a>, who started in center Tuesday.<\/p>\n Tucker recently come out of a long slump after dealing with a hairline fracture in his hand suffered in June. He has yet to miss significant time this year after missing about half the season in 2024 due to a shin fracture.<\/p>\n Tucker is hitting .270 with 73 RBIs after his home run Tuesday.<\/p>\n “I feel all right,” he said. “We’ll just see how it is tomorrow (Wednesday) and take it day-by-day and hopefully just get back in there pretty soon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse RogersSep 2, 2025, 11:41 PM ET CloseJesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-115440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/250901_mlb_dataviz-playoff-prob_1x1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\"){kind=spacer}
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