hasn’t flagged over the last few months and Kupp has progressed to doing some on-field work as he tries to get back to 100 percent in time for next season.“I feel good. I don’t think we like to talk about being on pace or off p

The Indians caught a lucky break. Carlos Carrasco is only bruised.

An MRI taken Monday revealed that Cleveland’s steady starter only suffered a bruised right elbow when he was struck by a vicious line drive on Saturday against Minnesota.

”We dodged a huge bullet Zach Brown Jersey ,” said relieved Indians manager Terry Francona.

Carrasco, who has previously sustained serious injuries after being hit by comebackers, will be treated for swelling over the next 48 hours before being evaluated on Wednesday.

At this point, it’s expected that Carrasco will return to the rotation and mound once his stint on the disabled list ends.

”He still got hit really hard and there’s some trauma,” Francona said before the Indians opened a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox. ”The hope would be, once he gets the swelling out of there Devin Bush Jersey , that he’ll come quick because it’s a bruise and it could have been a lot worse.”

In the second inning on Saturday, Twins star Joe Mauer hit a line drive that Carrasco couldn’t avoid. The 31-year-old, who has been one of the AL’s most consistent pitchers the past three seasons, braced himself before absorbing the liner. He was forced to leave the game and taken to the hospital.

Carrrasco has a history of being hit on the mound. He was struck in the face in 2015 and then missed the 2016 playoffs after breaking his hand, a blow that left the Indians short one of their top pitchers during their run to the World Series.

But despite Carrasco’s track record of being a target, Francona isn’t worried about the 31-year-old showing any jitters when he pitches.

”He’s been hit before and you think http://www.steelerscheapauthenticstore.com/diontae-johnson-jersey-cheap , `OK will it bother him?”’ Francona said. ”He’s been hit before so I think he’s champing at the bit to get this out of there and start pitching again. It’s easy to tell him, `Hey, don’t worry about it.’ I’m not the one standing out there.

”This is fourth time, and I’ve never seen any ill effects before and I don’t anticipate any going forward. I think he’s just glad that it’s a bruise and see how quick he can get better.”

Francona chalked up Carrasco’s mound misfortune to bad luck.

”I do think there are pitchers that put themselves in a position where they are not able to field their position, but Carlos is fine,” Francona said. ”He lands flat and he’s in a really good position Justin Layne Jersey , most of the time. The fact that he could get his hand up and kind of block it and not hit somewhere else.”

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Wide receiver Cooper Kupp had a huge role in the Rams offense over the first half of the 2018 season, but he wasn’t around for the back side of the team’s run to Super Bowl LIII.Kupp tore his ACL in Week 10, which forced the team to make adjustments to their offense and put Kupp at the first step of an extended recovery process. That process hasn’t flagged over the last few months and Kupp has progressed to doing some on-field work as he tries to get back to 100 percent in time for next season.“I feel good. I don’t think we like to talk about being on pace or off pace, ahead or behind or anything like that, but I think I’m where I’m supposed to be,” Kupp said http://www.steelerscheapauthenticstore.com/benny-snell-jr.-jersey-cheap , via the team’s website. “Now, to get back on the field and put cleats on for the first time since the injury, it feels like it really just kind of refreshes things and gives me some new motivation to be able to go attack this thing.”Kupp caught 40 passes for 566 yards and six touchdowns in eight games before his injury and getting that kind of production back into the offense would be a welcome development in Los Angeles.