Michael Harris II leaves Braves-Nationals game with left quad tightness; expects to play on Friday

Michael Harris II has had a fantastic series as he has absolutely feasted upon the pitching that the Washington Nationals have served up for him. Hopefully, he’ll be able to take that with him back to Atlanta instead of the IL, as Harris has been removed from Thursday afternoon’s game ahead of the bottom of the seventh inning.

We’ll let you know later what’s going on, since it wasn’t exactly apparent what was going on with Harris while he was out there. He ran the bases fine, so maybe something tightened up on him while he was in the dugout? That’s as much speculation as I’ll give you.

We will continually update this post as the the situation continues to develop.

[UPDATE 3:10 p.m ET]: The Braves have described it as “left quad tightness.” Hoo boy. Keep your fingers crossed, folks.

[UPDATE 4:53 p.m. ET]: Money Mike talked to the media after the game and apparently the precautionary removal was just that: Precautionary. He’s feeling good and is expecting to play tomorrow. We’ll see if Walt Weiss gives him a breather in order to make sure he doesn’t exert it too much but as we just saw with Ronald Acuña Jr. and his scare, there’s a very good chance that we will indeed see Harris in the lineup for the series opener against the Phillies on Friday night.