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Royals’ Salvador Perez has intercostal strain, may face time on disabled list

There was good news for the Royals on Saturday, but not great.

The results of an MRI done Friday night on Royals catcher Salvador Perez revealed he has an strained intercostal muscle on the right side of his chest. Royals manager Ned Yost breathed a little sigh of relief, because he feared that it had been an oblique injury.

“Worst case scenario, it’s half the time (missed of an oblique),” Yost said. “But we won’t know anything for probably 48 hours to set a time line on it.”

An oblique injury means about an eight week recovery period.