White Sox center fielder Luis Robert will miss Wednesday’s game against the Guardians.
AJ Pollock, who started in left field on Tuesday, will man center in Robert's place. Andrew Vaughn is slated to start in left and Gavin Sheets in right. Adam Engel, who spelled Vaughn as a defensive replacement on Tuesday, is also available off the bench.
Robert is an integral player on both sides of the ball for the Sox, but has clearly been hampered since first injuring his left wrist on Aug. 12. In 15 games since then, he is slashing .156/.192/.222 without a home run. He went 0-for-5 with two strikeouts in Tuesday's game. The White Sox, meanwhile, are clawing for their playoff lives on Wednesday after Tuesday's loss dropped them five games back of Cleveland for the AL Central division lead with 14 to play — six games back if you factor in that the Guardians' win clinched them the head-to-head tiebreak with Chicago.
FanGraphs gives Cleveland a 96.9 percent chance of winning the division, and the White Sox a 6.3 percent chance of making the postseason, entering Wednesday's game. "Just because we lost yesterday, that don't mean that we're out of it," Cairo told reporters."Today's a new day, we gotta come back and play and do our job."
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