Nelson Cruz left the second of three with the Cubs in Wrigley when something with his right shoulder didn’t feel right. Cruz was 4 for his last 13 over four games, and 0 for 2 on the night before his manager pulled him from the lineup after five innings in the 2nd of 3 in Chicago.
“He has a right posterior [shoulder] soreness,” manager Davey Martinez told reporters after the Nationals’ 6-5 win over the Cubbies on Tuesday. “I saw him take a couple swings, and he kind of grimaced a little bit. He came out and he tried to go in the cage and see if he could work it out, but it stiffened up on him, so we’ll see how he feels tomorrow, but I didn’t want to take any chances.