CLEVELAND — Chicago White Sox third baseman Yoán Moncada will miss at least three months and maybe up to six with a severe leg injury sustained while running to first base on Tuesday night.
The team said Wednesday that Moncada suffered a strained adductor as he tried to beat out an infield grounder in the second inning of Chicago’s 7-5 win over the Guardians.
Moncada, 28, who had been dealing with a nagging injury in the same area for a few days leading into the game, collapsed as he neared the bag. He writhed in pain on the ground for several minutes before being helped off the field.
He’s the third regular to be injured already this season for Chicago, which is already missing outfielder Luis Robert Jr. (hip flexor) and slugger Eloy Jimenez (adductor). The timetable for Robert’s return remains unknown and Jimenez could be back as early as this weekend.
To take Moncada’s roster spot, the White Sox recalled outfielder Oscar Colás from Triple-A Charlotte.
Moncada, who has been slowed by injuries the past few seasons, was batting .282 with three doubles in 11 games this season.
WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
TWINS 3, DODGERS 2: Edouard Julien homered twice and scored three runs for Minnesota to spark a slumping lineup and lead a victory over visiting Los Angeles.
Julien, who entered the afternoon in a 3-for-28 start to the season, led off the first and fifth innings with opposite-field drives into the bleachers in left for his first career multi-homer game. Alex Vesia (0-1) relieved starter Bobby Miller to start the fifth and took the loss.
Julien, the second-year second baseman, also started the third with a single and scored on a single by Byron Buxton that stopped an 0-for-33 skid for the Twins with runners in scoring position.
PHILLIES 4, CARDINALS 3: J.T. Realmuto had two hits and scored two runs and Aaron Nola pitched six innings, leading Philadelphia to a win at St. Louis.
Realmuto was back in the starting lineup, hitting cleanup. He left Tuesday’s game after he was hit in the throat area on a Zack Wheeler wild pitch in the seventh inning.
Brandon Marsh and Nick Castellanos each drove in a run in the sixth to break a 2-2 tie.
MARINERS 6, BLUE JAYS 1: Cal Raleigh hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning and visiting Seattle beat Toronto to avoid a three-game sweep.
Raleigh connected on the first pitch he saw from Blue Jays left-hander Tim Mayza (0-1). The homer was Raleigh’s second of the season.
Ty France hit an RBI double and Mitch Haniger added a two-run single in the five-run 10th as Seattle snapped a three-game losing streak and won for the second time in eight games.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his third home run of the season, a 459-foot solo blast, but the Blue Jays left the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth against Mariners right-hander Andrés Muñoz.
GIANTS 7, NATIONALS 1: Nick Ahmed and Tyler Fitzgerald had three hits apiece and Jordan Hicks allowed one run in six innings as host San Francisco avoided a three-game series sweep.
Hicks (2-0) has allowed one earned run or fewer in each of his first three starts this season after signing a $44 million, four-year contract with San Francisco this offseason. The 27-year-old right-hander allowed four hits and had two strikeouts.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, ROCKIES 3: Eugenio Suárez hit a two-out, two-run double in the ninth inning and visiting Arizona came back to beat Colorado.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. added two hits and two RBI for the Diamondbacks, including an RBI double in the seventh inning to tie it at 3.
RAYS 4, ANGELS 2: José Caballero homered, Tampa Bay scored two runs on a wild pitch in the first inning, and the Rays wrapped up their trip by beating Los Angeles.
Jo Adell homered and Zach Neto had an RBI single for the Angels, who have lost 3 of 4.
GUARDIANS 7, WHITE SOX 6: Bo Naylor and Josh Naylor delivered RBI hits in the 10th inning as Cleveland beat visiting Chicago.
Josh Naylor tied it with an RBI double before turning it over to his little brother — on National Siblings Day.
With the bases loaded, Bo Naylor, who hit a two-run homer earlier in the game — the same inning his brother connected — dropped his single into right field off former Guardians reliever Bryan Shaw (0-1) as Cleveland came back after trailing 5-0.
PADRES 10, CUBS 2: Dylan Cease pitched six strong innings and Jurickson Profar had a go-ahead double and a two-run homer among his three hits as San Diego beat visiting Chicago.
MARLINS 5, YANKEES 2: Jake Burger hit a three-run homer on his 28th birthday and visiting Miami beat New York for just its second win this season.
Ryan Weathers (1-1) allowed three hits and three walks in five scoreless innings for the Marlins, who at 2-11 had matched the team record for worst 12-game start set in 1998. Weathers got his first big league win in almost a year, since defeating the New York Mets for San Diego on April 11 last year.
New York dropped to 10-3 as the Marlins stopped the Yankees’ four-game winning streak.
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