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Phillies<\/a> center fielder Harrison Bader<\/a> left Game 1 of the NLDS, an eventual 5-3 loss<\/a> against the Dodgers<\/a>, due to a groin injury. Game 2 isn’t until Monday at 6:08 p.m. ET, but Phillies manager Rob Thomson said Sunday that an MRI showed no major tear or strain.<\/p>\n “We’ll know more tomorrow, but I think after the game they stretched him out,” Thomson told reporters. “They got him moving around a little bit, and I think he felt a lot better after that. We’ll know whether he’s available to start or at least to pinch-hit. We’ll know more tomorrow.”<\/p>\n Bader, 31, was acquired by the Phillies on trade deadline day from the Twins<\/a>. In his 50 games in the regular season for the Phillies, he hit .305\/.361\/.463 (124 OPS+) with excellent defense in center field. He posted 1.4 WAR. In two plate appearances in Game 1, he had a sacrifice fly and was hit by a pitch before being replaced in the bottom of the seventh inning. He also made a diving catch in center.<\/p>\n If Bader does end up missing a game or more, the Phillies could use Brandon Marsh<\/a> in center field instead of left and put Nick Castellanos<\/a> in right field, flipping Max Kepler<\/a> to left. In Game 2, the Dodgers are starting lefty Blake Snell<\/a>, so the platoons say that Castellanos and Weston Wilson<\/a> will be in there for Marsh and Kepler, respectively. That means if Bader can’t play, the Phillies will either need to play the left handed-hitting Marsh in center or put Otto Kemp<\/a> in the lineup, unless they want to throw Edmundo Sosa<\/a> in the outfield.<\/p>\n Needless to say, they really need Bader to be good to go for Game 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Phillies center fielder Harrison Bader left Game 1 of the NLDS, an eventual 5-3 loss against…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[33089,1266,2083,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-279922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-harrison-bader","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115322632626920028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}