Audra Martin is in the camera well, interviewing players. In the second inning, Rocco Baldelli was happy to spend a second half-inning with the Twins broadcast, answering questions on ABS, the spring training adjustments after the collapse late in the 2024 season.

Royce Lewis was at the plate and hit a bounding ground ball down the third base line.

It was the type of contact in which a runner can bet out the throw. Lewis put his head down and ran toward first base.

About halfway down the line, he hopped and grabbed his left hamstring as he tried to slow himself down.

He was out at first base, but that is obviously not what was important.

Baldelli apologized and said he had to go out on the field. He jogged to first base where he talked with Lewis and first base coach Ramon Borrego and head trainer Nick Paparesta. No surprise, but Lewis was removed from the game.

In the top of the third inning, Tanner Schobel took over at third base.

Unfortunately Lewis is not unfamiliar with injury. He missed the entire 2021 season after right ACL surgery.

He came back in 2022 and soon after, he re-tore his ACL and missed another season.

In 2023, he missed July and half of August with an oblique injury. He returned and then missed the final week of the season with a left hamstring injury.

In 2024, he pulled his quad on Opening Day and missed about two months. He played for a month in June, but in early July he missed three weeks with an adductor strain.

The team announced that Lewis, in fact, did injure his hamstring but nothing more at this point. With about 10 days until Opening Day, it would seem likely that Lewis will open the season on the Injured List.

Updates to come when news becomes available.