AROUND THE HORN

Braves: Braves rookie Spencer Strider has a sore left oblique and will not make his next start Saturday against the Phillies in Philadelphia. Strider, the fastest pitcher to record 200 strikeouts in a single season, told the team he didn’t feel right after making his last start, a 5-2 home victory Sunday over the Phillies. “It’s not that we’re going to (put him on the injured list),” Braves manager Brian Snitker said Tuesday. “We just don’t want to take any chances. He wanted pitch, and we kind of took it out of his hands. And I’m glad he said something. That was smart of him because it’s just something that, if we don’t stay ahead of something like that, it could be an end of the year type thing.” Strider will continue to play catch and when he feels good, the Braves will slot him back into the rotation. “We talked about it yesterday,” Snitker said. “I think he felt it during the start. He mentioned something afterwards and treated him up yesterday. He was intent on making his next start and probably could, but we don’t want to take a chance.” The Braves will start Bryce Elder on Wednesday against the Nationals and push Max Fried back one day for the first of a four-game series that begins Thursday against the Phillies. Strider reached 200 strikeouts in 130 innings, two-thirds of an inning quicker than Hall of Famer Randy Johnson in 2001. The right-hander is 11-5 with a 2.67 ERA in 20 starts and 11 relief appearances.

Yankees: Pitcher Frankie Montas received a second cortisone injection in his ailing right shoulder and went on the IL, putting his rotation position in doubt for the postseason. Montas mentioned the shoulder issue to the Yankees after Friday’s start against the Brewers, when the Yankees failed to hold a 5-0 lead. He’s 1-3 with a 6.35 ERA in eight starts since the Yankees acquired him from A’s for four prospects in an Aug. 1 trade, leaving him 5-12 with a 4.05 ERA in 27 starts this season. Montas was diagnosed with shoulder inflammation and was given the injection Monday. “I’m going to wait a couple days to start playing catch and go from there,” Montas said Tuesday. “Let the cortisone shot ... work the magic.” Montas had his first cortisone shot in early July and didn’t pitch between July 3 and 21. “It did work, just probably rushed it a little bit,” he said. Montas was placed on the 15-day IL retroactive to Saturday. The earliest Montas could be activated is Oct. 2, leaving him at most one start before the playoffs. “We’ll just see how the recovery goes here over the next week or 10 days and then we’ll see where we are from a calendar standpoint, how many pitches we can get him up to,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “It might be hard to to get the pitch count back up to a certain point.” RHP Luis Severino is scheduled to start Wednesday against the Pirates after recovering from a strained right lat that has sidelined him since July 13. He joins a rotation that includes Gerrit Cole, Nelson Cortes and Jameson Tallion and Domingo Germán. Severino estimated he would throw at most 65 pitches against the Pirates, then increase by 10 to 15 in each following start. INF DJ LaMahieu, sidelined since Sept. 4 by right second toe inflammation, could be activated during the current homestand.