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Pedroia returns to IL but reportedly avoids serious knee injury

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Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia appears to have dodged disaster.

Tests on Pedroia's left knee following his early departure from Wednesday's game revealed that he didn't suffer a serious injury, a source told Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe.

Despite that encouraging report, the Red Sox placed the 35-year-old on the 10-day injured list Thursday with a left knee irritation.

The move is believed to be a precautionary measure, and Boston thinks Pedroia can return soon after resting, Abraham reported.

Pedroia - who missed all but three games in 2018 while recovering from left knee surgery and began this season on the IL - left Wednesday's contest at Yankee Stadium after feeling "something weird" in his knee while swinging during his one at-bat, according to manager Alex Cora. Doctors in New York examined him on Thursday.

"He felt a pop I think he said yesterday, I'm not sure, but the number of things that he's had going on with that knee, as we know, the knee is never going to be 100 percent," Dombrowski told WEEI's "Dale & Keefe Show" earlier Thursday, per MassLive's Nick O'Malley. "It's amazing that any player can play with what he’s gone through. He continues to battle through it."

The 2008 AL MVP is hitting .100/.143/.100 through six games this season.

Reliever Marcus Walden was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket in a corresponding move.

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