Moustakas misses another game with knee injury, to be re-evaluated by Royals’ doctors

On Tuesday afternoon at Target Field, Mike Moustakas appeared before his locker wearing a black brace on his ailing right knee. One day later, he was out of the lineup for the third straight day.

Moustakas, the Royals’ starting third baseman, is slated to be re-evaluated by the club’s medical staff Thursday in Kansas City after missing three games this week with a sore right knee.

Earlier this week, Royals manager Ned Yost described the injury as a “contusion,” suffered during a collision with Alex Gordon on Sunday afternoon in Chicago. But the soreness and swelling have persisted over three days in Minnesota. In addition, Moustakas’s lateral mobility remains limited, Yost said.

“I haven’t even really checked on him, to be honest with you,” Yost said Wednesday morning. “Because the plan was, ‘We’ll get back to Kansas City, check him out and see how he is feeling.’ He did say yesterday that he felt better.”

Moustakas took some swings Tuesday and was available to pinch-hit Wednesday, Yost said.

“He felt OK,” Yost said. “It still bothers him to run laterally a little bit.”

Moustakas is batting .240 with seven homers in 27 games this season. He missed 14 games in early May after breaking a sesamoid bone in his left thumb. He was activated from the disabled list Saturday, appearing in two games before colliding with Gordon in Chicago.

This story was originally published May 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM with the headline "Moustakas misses another game with knee injury, to be re-evaluated by Royals’ doctors."