Matt Cain skipping Thursday start with elbow inflammation - MLB

According to the great Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, Giants manager Bruce Bochy announced late Wednesday evening that right-hander Matt Cain has inflammation in his throwing elbow and will skip his scheduled Thursday Cactus League start against the Rockies.

Not to worry, though.

The Giants ran an MRI on his arm and it showed no kind of structural damage. The expectation is that he won’t have to miss another outing.

Cain, 26, registered a sparkling 3.14 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 177 strikeouts across 223.1 innings last year for the World Series champion Giants. An underrated workhorse, he has pitched at least 200 innings in each of the last four seasons.

San Francisco is expecting a similar brand of durability out of the former first-round pick in 2011.

NEW YORK — Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm is out of the starting lineup for the second time in three games because of left hamstring tightness.

Bohm had an MRI and the Phillies were awaiting the results. Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said it was too soon to tell if Bohm might land on the injured list.

Bohm sat out the loss in Atlanta because of the same issue then Philadelphia was off.

Edmundo Sosa was set to start at third against the New York Mets, batting ninth.

Thomson said Bohm felt discomfort after fielding a slow roller. He played the entire game and went 0 for 3 in a 2-0 loss to the Mets.

Bohm is batting .265 with six homers and a team-high 37 RBIs this season. He has a .724 OPS.