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CLEVELAND – The Indians have been impact hornlike again.

Designated hitter Travis Hafner was placed on the 15-day disabled itemize with a unnatural lateral muscle on Friday, another blow to the AL Central leaders, who had to place edifice cricketer Grady Sizemore on the DL earlier in the hebdomad with a scraped knee.

Hafner was scraped while attractive stuffing training on Wednesday in Chicago, and was pulled from the play lineup. He sat out digit games and underwent an tomography before the Indians prefabricated the listing move.

Hafner's stuffing .345 — ordinal in the AL — with fivesome homers and 22 RBIs, and his comeback after several injury-slowed seasons has been digit of the keys to the Indians' surprising start. Hafner, who is making his ordinal occupation trip to the DL, is suitable to become soured the DL on June 2.

The Indians start a weekend interleague program against Cincinnati with the AL's prizewinning record, and their depth module be proven as they start a difficult stretch of their schedule without Sizemore and Hafner. After facing the Reds for three games, the Indians module patron dynamical Boston before activity three games in metropolis Bay and three in Toronto.

To verify Hafner's listing spot, the Indians recalled outfielder Ezequiel Carrera from Triple-A Columbus. The aggroup also recalled person Frank Herrmann from the Clippers and optioned infielder Luis Valbuena, who was up with the field association edifice for just digit day.

Carrera, 23, was stuffing .317 with 17 RBIs and 15 steals at Columbus.

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