Ailing wrist keeps Harper out of the lineup

A sore wrist has Bryce Harper out of the lineup Monday night in the opener of a four-game set with Milwaukee.

Harper tweaked the wrist sliding into third in Sunday night’s loss to the New York Mets. Trainers had visited Harper in the eighth for what manager Joe Girardi called “a stinger,” but Harper stayed in the game. He struck out to end the ninth with the potential tying run, Rhys Hoskins after his homerturned-double, on second.

“He’s being evaluated by the doctors and we’ll see what we think the next move is with him,” Girardi said. “We’re hopeful that it’s not an IL, but we’ve got to wait to see how he feels and what our doctors feel.”

Hoskins is also out of the lineup against the Brewers. Whether or not that is related to the fielding blunder that allowed the Mets to tie the game in a six-run eighth inning remains to be seen.

Andrew McCutchen, who led off Sunday’s game with a homer, is also not in the lineup. The veteran outfielder talked Saturday about how he’s struggled picking up fly balls at Citizens

Bank Park. Girardi said a conversation with McCutchen about possibly re-testing his vision “is on my docket” for Monday, but it’s unclear if that and the day off are related.

Odubel Herrera, who is 1-for-19 this season, starts in right. Roman Quinn, off his RBI triple Sunday to raise his batting average to .100, is in center.

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NOTES » none of the three batters he faced Sunday, Jose Alvarado accepted his threegame suspension for sparking a bench-clearing Friday night. The lefty has thrown four of the last six days, so this rest is as good a time as any. … Jean Segura (quad) and Ronald Torreyes (COVID-19) are off to the alternate site to get games ahead of possible returns. Girardi believes Segura should progress more quickly there, needing only a couple of games. … Centerfield remains a massive production void. Is Nick Maton the answer when Segura gets back? Girardi: “That’s something that has been talked about a little bit. We’ve had him take fly balls to increase his availability to us. We’re not sure yet.” Girardi has praised Maton effusively, the rookie hitting .348 in his first twoplus weeks in the bigs.