CHICAGO \u2014 White Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi was scratched from Saturday night’s lineup against Seattle because of neck stiffness.<\/p>\n
Benintendi was slated to serve as the designated hitter against the Mariners. He was replaced by Randal Grichuk.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old Benintendi is batting .235 with two homers and 17 RBIs in 36 games.<\/p>\n
White Sox catcher Kyle Teel and outfielder Austin Hays took live batting practice against Erick Fedde before the game. Teel also ran the bases for the second straight day.<\/p>\n
Teel has been sidelined since he strained his right hamstring while playing for Italy in the World Baseball Classic. The 24-year-old Teel hit .273 with eight homers and 35 RBIs in 78 games last year in his first action with the White Sox.<\/p>\n
He is expected to run again Sunday before beginning a rehab stint in the minors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re getting closer, and certainly the closest we\u2019ve been,\u201d manager Will Venable said. \u201cWe just want to make sure that when he leaves here, he\u2019s in a good spot. Make sure he recovers today, gets through tomorrow the right way and then reevaluate after Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hays is on the 10-day injured list with a left calf strain. He is expected to run the bases in the next few days.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the last of the boxes to check, to be able to run the bases on back-to-back days and recover well before going on a rehab assignment,\u201d Venable said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 White Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi was scratched from Saturday night’s lineup against Seattle because of neck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,4,396,2562,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-694721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-white-sox","14":"tag-whitesox","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116547000965433712","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}