MINNEAPOLIS — The San Diego Padres placed shortstop Xander Bogaerts on the 10-day injured list Friday with a non-displaced fracture in his left foot.
Bogaerts sustained the injury in Wednesday's game against Seattle when he fouled a ball off his foot. He stayed in that game, but eventually had imaging that revealed a fracture.
“Not great news,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said before Friday's game against Minnesota. “Effectively, it's a fracture that's going to require him being in a boot for a week and then evaluation from there.”
Shildt added that the team's medical staff doesn't believe it will be a season-ending injury for Bogaerts, but Shildt didn't have a timeline Friday.
Prior to the injury, Bogaerts played in 131 of the Padres' 134 games. He was batting .262 with 49 RBI and had