Springer, 36, called for the training staff after taking a first-pitch swing to open the top of the seventh. He grabbed at his right side, and while there's not word yet on what injury he suffered, that tends to be the universal sign of an oblique or intercoastal strain.

LOS ANGELES – George Springer has spent the past six seasons enduring a cacophony of boos whenever he plays a road game, lingering fallout from his role in the 2017 Houston Astros ’ sign-stealing scandal, uncovered publicly in 2019.

Fansspeculate Yoshinobu Yamamoto intentionally targeted George Springer recalling lingering Astros sign-stealing scandal suspicions.