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been erratic.

The switch-hitting Profar went into the game hitting .143 with four homers in 105 at-bats swinging lefty against right-handers this season, but it didn’t matter when he led off the second inning with a line drive homer off a Carrasco slider over the left field fence. Profar singled against Carrasco in his next at bat.

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feet to right with one out in the third. It was Olson’s fourth homer in his 50th at-bat of the season. He also singled, walked and was hit by a pitch in five plate appearances.

Chapman’s 11th homer, following a Marcus Semien walk in the ninth, was drilled over the leftfield wall off Tyler Clippard to close the scoring. Chapman, who entered the game in a 7-of-49 slump, also singled in a run.

“The fetlock is our most worrisome structure,” Arthur said. “The other problem with some of the other bones is that they are not particularly repairable. Sometimes with the pelvis, you can do OK on repairing. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case (with Spectacular Music).”

The track was coming off a period in which it recorded almost 7,000 timed workouts and race starts without serious incident. The track estimates that around 80,000 horses had galloped during that period.

Santa Anita is better equipped to diagnose these types of injuries. The track has a nuclear scintigraphy machine that has examined more than 12,800 horses since it was installed at the track. Santa Anita also announced plans to add a Longmile Positron Emission Tomography Scan machine, called a MILE-PET, to its equine hospital. PET technology has been used on humans for a while, but not horses. The machine will aide in diagnosing fetlock injuries while the horse is standing.