BOSTON — The White Sox placed right-hander Lance Lynn on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to April 17) on Sunday with a strained right trapezius.
Lynn is expected to likely miss one start.
Lynn, 33, is 1-1 with a 0.92 ERA including a complete game shutout, 27 strikeouts and a 0.92 WHIP in three starts this season. He started feeling discomfort during his last start against the Indians on Thursday afternoon at Guaranteed Rate Field, when he threw six innings and 93 pitches.
The Sox made the announcement between games of their split doubleheader with the Red Sox Sunday at Fenway Park.
The White Sox defeated the Red Sox 3-2 and announced that Michael Kopech would start in Game 2, although probably limited to three innings in the seven-inning game.
The trapezius is a large paired muscle extending over the back of the neck and shoulders and moving the head and shoulder blade.
Right-handed reliever Zack Burdi was recalled from the Schaumburg training facility.
Lynn’s next scheduled start was Wednesday at Cleveland. While the Sox have off days Thursday and April 26, which should help them keep Lynn’s missed turns to one, they’ll need a starter to take his spot Wednesday. Jonathan Stiever, called up as the 27th man for the doubleheader Monday, is a possibility. And Reynaldo Lopez has been pitching for the alternate site team in Schaumburg.
Lynn, acquired in an offseason trade for Dane Dunning, has struck out 10-plus batters with zero walks in back-to-back starts, the first Sox pitcher to do so. He did not allow an earned run over his first 18 2⁄3 innings, the longest such streak to begin a season by a White Sox starter since Wilbur Wood went 21 innings in 1976.
Burdi, 26, was on the active roster on Wednesday and Thursday but did not pitch before being optioned to Schaumburg on Friday.
White Sox win Game 1
Shortstop Tim Anderson hit the first pitch of the game for a home run, third baseman Yoan Moncada had the game-winning RBI with a two-out single in the fifth and started two double plays with slick fielding plays, and Dallas Keuchel pitched five-plus innings of two-run ball to carry the White Sox to a 3-2 win over the Red Sox.
Aaron Bummer recorded three outs in the sixth inning and Liam Hendriks pitched the last inning of a seven-inning game for his second save.
The runs against Keuchel came on a spinning infield RBI single by Hunter Renfro and Kike Hernandez’s 340-foot homer inside the right-field foul pole.
