PHOENIX — Will Smith had to go through X-rays, a CT scan and two MRIs on his right hand in order to be told what he thought he knew.

“I could tell it was a little more than bruising. They were assuring me it was (only a bone bruise),” said Smith, who injured his right hand on a foul tip three weeks ago now. “So then you’re kind of, ‘Okay, I guess it is just dealing with it.’ Then it turns out I wasn’t going crazy and it was more. I can trust my body a little bit which I guess is good. But it is a fracture and that takes time.”

Smith’s second MRI last week revealed a hairline fracture at the base of the third metacarpal. He has a brace on his right hand now but has not tried throwing or swinging a bat since the diagnosis that came two weeks after the injury.

The chances of Smith being re

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