MILWAUKEE -- After being briefed on the results of further testing on Brewers catcher William Contreras ’ bruised left hand, manager Pat Murphy has no doubt about Contreras’ availability for Game 1 of the NLDS on Saturday.

“You’re not going to be able to keep William out,” Murphy said on Tuesday afternoon, when the Brewers returned from a day off to work out at American Family Field. “No matter what the analysis is on that injury, he’s going to play.”

Contreras sat out the final two games of the regular season with pain in his glove hand, which goes back to Sept. 20 in St. Louis, when Cardinals designated hitter Iván Herrera’s swing hit Contreras’ glove hand. That’s the same hand, incidentally, with a fractured middle finger dating to last season.

He exited that game but X-rays were n

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