Chapman hospitalized with infection
A’s general manager David Forst said Thursday morning that rookie third baseman Matt Chapman is in the hospital receiving intravenous antibiotics for the infection in his left knee.
Forst said that Chapman is still expected to come off the disabled list when eligible Thursday.
“The oral antibiotics he’d been getting plateaued,” Forst said, adding that team orthopedist Dr. Will Workman had decided the time had come for more aggressive intervention. Forst said Chapman was responding well and is expected to get out of the hospital Friday.
One A’s player who had seen Chapman’s knee when the infection cropped up said the swelling on the knee was the size of a baseball.
“We’ll see how he does in the next few days, and if he feels great, maybe we get him a game or two at (Class A) Stockton,” manager Bob Melvin said. With Chapman on the DL, Matt
Olson was called up from Triple-A Nashville on Thursday and was in right field. He went 2-for-3 with two walks, scored a run and drove in two in the A’s 12-9 loss to the visiting Astros. Hahn’s rough day: Houston put up 10 runs in the first two innings against Jesse Hahn, who had not allowed more than three runs in 11 of his 12 previous starts this season. He hurt his own cause in the first, hitting George Springer to open the game, walking the next two men and then allowing sacrifice flies to Carlos
Beltran and Evan Gattis. The next inning, the Astros flashed their power, with Jake Marisnick and Marwin Gonzalez delivering three-run homers off Hahn. Gattis also hit a two-run single in the eightrun inning as Houston sent 11 men to the plate.
Marisnick was in the game as a replacement for Springer, who was hit on the left shoulder and hand. The Astros said Springer had a left hand contusion.
“I’m not going to say it rattled me, but I felt bad and sent best wishes to him,” Hahn said. “For me, my game is coming inside on righties and I kind of babied it in there after that.”
Hahn lasted just the two innings, allowing 10 runs, nine earned, a career high. Melvin said Hahn’s command was off and his velocity was down.
Hahn said he just didn’t have good stuff, even in the bullpen. “It was just one of those starts, no matter what I did, I couldn’t find anything,” he said.
Melvin said there are no concerns about Hahn’s health because he came out of the game feeling OK.