AROUND THE HORN

Yankees:

Slugger Luke Voit was placed on the 10-day injured list Thursday with a sore left knee, and the Yankees recalled RHP Albert Abreu from Triple-A Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre. Voit, who underwent knee surgery in March, limped back to the dugout after running to first base in a pinch-hit appearance in the seventh inning of Wednesday’s 6-5 loss to the Blue Jays. Voit broke for first on a wild strike three even though there was a runner on first and fewer than two outs. “He woke up pretty stiff today and he’s limping pretty good,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “We think it’s a bone bruise that can be a result of the surgery. That’s kind of been on and off for him.” Voit is batting .239 with 11 HRs and 35 RBI in 68 games. He hit a major league-leading 22 HRs in last year’s 60-game season. Boone said tests Wednesday night showed no fracture to the left forearm of OF Joey Gallo, who was hit by a pitch.

Cardinals: Manager Mike Shildt named Adam Wainwright as the starter in the NL wild-card game next week against either the Dodgers or Giants. Wainwright is 17-7 with a 3.08 ERA this season. “He gets better as the game goes, he goes deep in games, he’s a big-game pitcher,” Shildt said. The Cards clinched the second NL wild-card spot earlier this week. The postseason trip will be the third in a row for the Cardinals. Wainwright has won 10 of his last 11 decisions this season, with 11 quality starts during that span including Tuesday’s clincher. The 40-year-old right-hander is no stranger to the postseason, with 28 appearances throughout his career, including earning the save in the World Series clincher against the Tigers in 2006. Wainwright has a 3-5 record in 11 postseason starts . ... Rookie Dylan Carlson hit two go-ahead HRs, one from each side of the plate, and the Cards beat the visiting Brewers 4-3. Carlson’s HRs made a winner out of J.A. Happ, who entered the game 0-3 in his last five starts against the NL Central champs. Happ (10-8) gave up 3 runs on 9 hits and struck out 7 in 6 innings. Kodi Whitley and T.J. McFarland combined for two innings of scoreless relief and Luís Garcia earned his second save as the Cards won the rubber game of the series after having their franchise record 17-game winning streak snapped the night before.

Extra innings: Adolis Garcia set a team rookie record for HRs and RBIs and Brock Holt put the host Rangers ahead for the first time with a two-run double in the eighth inning of a series-clinching 7-6 victory over the Angels. Garcia’s 31st HR was a two-run blast in the fifth that pushed the All-Star OF’s RBI total to 90 . ... Hall of Fame slugger Frank Thomas has headed a venture that bought controlling interest in Go the Distance Baseball’s stake of All-Star Ballpark Heaven and the Field of Dreams Movie Site in Iowa. Thomas, 53, will be CEO and former White Sox GM Dan Evans will be COO of This is Heaven LLC. Major League Baseball built a ballpark adjacent to the site of the 1989 movie “Field of Dreams,” and the Yankees and White Sox played the first big league game there on Aug. 12. The Cubs and Reds are scheduled to play there next Aug. 11.