In the fifth inning, Delgado lined up to field a single, but the ball bounced off the second-base bag, causing Delgado to go for it with his right hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the ball was gonna go to my glove and then it hit the bag, it took a little misdirection to the right,\u201d Delgado said. \u201cIn that moment, you can\u2019t really calculate those types of things, you just throw your hand out, hoping that you\u2019re stopping the ground ball, at least.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Delgado could not make the play, and the Twins scored two runs on the single. After the play, he looked down at his right hand and was seen by an Astros trainer. He then left the field covering his hand in a towel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the game, Astros manager Joe Espada said Delgado dislocated his right pinky, but X-rays showed there was no fracture in the hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allen and Delgado are expected to see time at shortstop to cover for Pe\u00f1a, who will miss a minimum 10 days.<\/p>\n
Delgado and Espada did not comment on whether he would play in Friday\u2019s series against the Tampa Bay Rays at Daikin Park, but Espada said Delgado was holding a bat after the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked in and he had a bat in his hand and I\u2019m like \u2018Dude, what is going on?\u2019\u201d Espada said. \u201c(Delgado said), \u2018It\u2019s pain tolerated, that\u2019s what they told me.\u2019 Pretty tough kid, so we will see how he feels Friday.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea how long it\u2019ll keep me out, but I was holding a bat,\u201d Delgado said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really able to squeeze it all the way, but I mean (I was)\u00a0 holding a bat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the fifth inning, Delgado lined up to field a single, but the ball bounced off the second-base…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-358420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}