Happ wasn’t in the lineup for Wednesday’s series finale but said he could be available if necessary. X-rays taken on Happ’s shin were negative.<\/p>\n
“Nothing serious,” Happ said before the game, adding that he did feel “a little sore and stiff.”<\/p>\n
The incident occurred Tuesday during the eighth inning of the Cubs’ 9-3 loss to the Brewers and caused him to exit the game. Happ also had said Tuesday he felt lightheaded as a result of the pain coming from his shin.<\/p>\n
Cubs outfielder Ian Happ is helped off the field in the eighth inning Tuesday after fouling a ball off his shin.\u00a0Photo by Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
“It was something like, if you feel like you’re going to pass out or throw up on the field, you probably shouldn’t continue the at-bat,” Happ said before Wednesday’s game.<\/p>\n
Happ said he generally doesn’t wear shin guards when he’s at the plate. That likely will change for at least a little bit.<\/p>\n
“I don’t love the way they feel,” Happ said. “I don’t like the bulkiness of them, so I try not to [wear them]. But when I hit right-handed now for a week or two, I’ll have one on. And then once it goes away, we’ll do it again.”<\/p>\n
Although Happ avoided a stint on the injured list, the Cubs did make a move Wednesday by calling up catcher Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros from Triple-A Iowa and designating utility man Vidal Bruj\u00e1n for assignment. Ballesteros was batting seventh as a designated hitter in the Cubs’ lineup Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“It was basically just trying to put the best lineup out there today, essentially,” Cubs manager Craig Counsell said. “In moving on from Bruj\u00e1n, moving forward, we’re probably going to have to make some other changes to the roster just to get more outfield depth. But for today, it made sense.”<\/p>\n
Ballesteros, 21, has batted .332 with a .393 on-base percentage, .496 slugging percentage, 9 homers, 57 RBIs and 4 steals in 86 games with Iowa. He went 3-for-18 with three RBIs in five games with Chicago earlier this season.<\/p>\n
He said that earlier stint in the big leagues taught him to be more patient.<\/p>\n
“As much as we want to get out there and do things too perfect, we’ve just got to stick to what you do and just try not to do too much,” Ballesteros said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n
Bruj\u00e1n, 27, hit .222 with a .234 on-base percentage, no homers, 3 RBIs and 2 steals in 36 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 30, 2025, 01:44 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Chicago Cubs outfielder Ian Happ won’t require a stint on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-35296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}