“It’s just been something that’s been bothering him for the last week or so,” Boone said. “(He’s) been getting treatment on it, hasn’t really affected him in his baseball stuff: throwing, or swinging, or anything.”

He cited the rain delay as a primary reason for shutting Soto down early.

“Once we shut down in the rain delay, that soreness was there,” Boone continued. “So didn’t feel like it was the right thing to go back out there…We’ll get imaging tomorrow…It’s just kind of been something that’s sore, lingering. Instead of ramping back up, and treating it, and getting ready, just decided to play it safe.”