Ben Zobrist isn’t in the starting lineup Monday and probably won’t be for a few days more, but the left knee injury the A’s second baseman suffered Sunday in Kansas City isn’t as bad as it could be.
At least he doesn’t believe it is based on a similar injury that sidelined him in the early days of his career in the Houston organization, the year before he was traded to Tampa Bay. That time he suffered a torn cartilage, and there is no evidence of a repeat this time through.
“I was playing for Salem and I hurt my knee with a slide, like this,’’ Zobrist said Monday.