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Knee injury: Nathan Lukes could play today
Charles-Alexis Brisebois
Knee injury: Nathan Lukes could play today
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Last night, in the loss of the Toronto Blue Jays, Nathan Lukes hurt his knee. Nothing like Bo Bichette, but still.

We saw him hit himself in the knee with a foul ball, take a few moments to recover, and finally get a base on balls after a 12-shot at-bat. That got Bryce Miller's juices flowing.

Even though Lukes remained in the game following the hit, we still saw the club choose, a few minutes later, that it was best to play it safe in his case.

Myles Straw eventually replaced him on the right.

The good news, in the circumstances, was that Lukes suffered no fracture. John Schneider even opened the door, following yesterday's match, to seeing Lukes play this afternoon, on the heels of game #2 of the series.

This will obviously depend on his state of health when the time comes. As long as the club doesn't push him unnecessarily, as was done with Bo Bichette a month ago…

Lukes is a valued teammate in Toronto and I'm sure a lot of guys are hoping he'll be able to play Game #2 to level the series with a win apiece.

The Blue Jays don't want to go three games out West trailing 0-2.

Lukes isn't just nice: he's also very useful. He's sometimes the one who pulls the team up as the club's #2 hitter, and I'm sure the manager hopes to be able to count on him.

Especially since the Mariners don't have many left-handed pitchers on their pitching staff…

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