MIAMI — Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. left Thursday’s game against the Marlins with what the team announced as left thumb pain.
Acuña had an X-ray taken at loanDepot Park and the results were negative. He is listed as day-to-day.
“He’s got a bone bruise, I believe, in his thumb,” Braves manager Walt Weiss said after Thursday’s game. “I think he’s gonna be fine. He’s not sure how it happened. Maybe the previous at-bat? But all of a sudden, he had some pain in the thumb.”
Acuña was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored before being pulled ahead of the bottom of the sixth inning. He had a two-run single in the fifth inning, flew out to right in the third and singled to lead off the game.
Before the start of the bottom of the fifth, Acuña was late getting out to his position in right field and was having a conversation with Braves’ manager Walt Weiss before eventually leaving the dugout. Acuña was replaced defensively by Eli White in the bottom of the sixth.
“He wasn’t sure, and we weren’t sure, but it wasn’t getting any better after being out in the field for an inning, so that’s why we took him out,” Weiss said. “I think he’s gonna be fine. He’s trying to talk his way into the lineup (Friday) with me as soon as the game was over. I think he’s gonna be alright.”
Acuña had just been activated off the injured list Monday after recovering from a strained hamstring. He was 2-for-8 with a double, two walks and four runs scored in the previous two games.
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