White Sox third baseman Jake Burger landed on the 10-day injured list Thursday after straining his left oblique in the Sox’ game against the Twins Wednesday night.
Infielder Lenyn Sosa was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte to take Burger’s spot on the roster. Sosa was in the lineup at second base for the Sox’ series finale against the Twins Thursday afternoon.
Burger left Wednesday’s 6-4 victory against the Twins, the Sox’ third in a row following a 10-game losing streak, with discomfort in his left side after striking out looking in the fourth. He said he felt something while checking his swing.
‘‘Weird pitch, weird swing,’’ Burger said Wednesday night.
Burger, who has filled in at third for injured Yoan Moncada, is batting .224 with a team-high seven homers.
Moncada headed for rehab stint
Moncada, on the IL with a sore back since April 14, is going on a minor league rehab stint at Charlotte this weekend. Grifol is unsure how much time he’ll need.
“Moncada’s missed quite a bit of time and it’s the back, the back is fragile,” Grifol said. “We want to make sure it continues to head in the right direction, that it continues to gain strength there. The work capacity has to be worked up to a high level. He’s going to be playing third base, he’s going to be diving around, he’s going to be diving and getting up. He swings from both sides of the plate, he does a lot.
“It could be a shorter [rehab stint], it could be a longer one. There are recovery phases to this, so we’ll see.”
Grifol said he’ll mix and match with Hanser Alberto and Sosa at third base for now.
Day off for Anderson
Two days removed from returning from the IL because of a sprained left knee, shortstop Tim Anderson got the afternoon off following a night game. Elvis Andrus played shortstop.
“Nothing is bothering him,” Grifol said. “He had an injury that was supposed to last 3-4 weeks, he came back quick, he’s played a couple days [since IL]. Workload is up. We’re just making sure we have him available the rest of the season.”
The Sox are 7-6 with Anderson in the lineup, 3-15 without him. Since the start of the 2020 season, the Sox are 152-112 with Anderson in the starting line-up and 67-84 without.
Hendriks and TA
Anderson and Liam Hendriks like to needle each other, and when a camera crew followed Hendriks around the field Wednesday, Anderson shouted, “The man’s got his own camera crew!”
Hendriks, who begins a rehab assignment at Charlotte Friday, is coming back from cancer.
“It didn’t really feel like he was going through anything the way he was handling himself,” Anderson said. “He was still the same. It was just a different topic over his name. Nothing really changed, he kept going, kept pitching, kept doing his stuff.”
Anderson hasn’t dealt with cancer but he knows personal challenges going back to his childhood.
“You have to keep going. You get what you need, but you’re not in control so you have to walk the path that you got and be happy with that,” he said. “We’re all on borrowed time, you just have to be thankful for what you have right now.”
Anderson missed the back and forths with Hendriks, who said Wednesday he missed “being around and keeping Tim in his place.”
“Someone to mess with,” Anderson said. “Someone to hold me accountable, I hold him accountable, and whoever bails one another out, great. So we have a good relationship. All we do is talk shit all day to each other, but it’s all fun.”
