Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts placed on IL, hopes for regular-season return

MINNEAPOLIS — The Padres will be without shortstop Xander Bogaerts for at least the next few weeks.

Bogaerts was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday with a non-displaced fracture in his left foot, the result of a ball fouled off his foot on Wednesday in Seattle.

“Couple weeks and looking to be back, hopefully, right before the regular season ends,” Bogaerts said Friday afternoon. “That’s what I’m trying to hope for. I had the shoulder and came back a little earlier (than projected). I’m blessed with some nice bones. So hopefully that can help with this time also.”

Sources familiar with the situation said the expectation is that the 32-year-old shortstop will be back in time for the postseason. Typical recovery for this type of foot injury is from three weeks to two months.

Jose Iglesias is starting at shortstop on Friday (5:10 p.m. on Padres.TV), while utility infielder Mason McCoy has been recalled from Triple-A El Paso.

This is the second year in a row Bogaerts has landed on the IL. He was out nearly two months last season, from mid-May to mid-July, with a broken bone in his shoulder. He said he took this news better.

“I think last year was probably the worse one,” Bogaerts said. “I’ve never had to be out for a long time. And I remember when they told me the amount of time last year, I cried a little bit. … This one, just being able to understand I will be back hopefully before the regular season ends, it makes it a little bit better instead of being like, ‘Hey, you broke the whole thing and you’re out for the whole season.’ It probably would have been a different type of reaction.”

Bogaerts was hitting .262/.330/.387 with 10 homers and 49 RBIs in his third season with the Padres.

Iglesias is hitting .228/.303/.276 with one homer and 29 RBIs in 94 games as a seldom-used player, but now he’ll get a chance to truly stretch his legs.

A year ago, Iglesias hit .337/.381/.448 with four homers in 85 games for the Mets’ postseason push.

McCoy was 0-for-5 for the Padres in April and is a .182/.250/.218 hitter across 63 big-league plate appearances.

McCoy was hitting .272/.354/.450 with 11 homers and 59 RBIs in 90 games for Triple-A El Paso.

Iglesias will hit seventh, ahead of second baseman Jake Cronenworth and catcher Freddy Fermin.

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First baseman Luis Arraez is back in the lineup in the two-hole, designated hitter Ryan O’Hearn will bat clean-up and center fielder Ramón Laureano is assuming Bogaerts’ spot in the five-hole.

Gavin Sheets will hit sixth and play left field.

Here is how the Twins will line up for Game 1 of the three-game series:

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Friday’s pitching matchup

Padres LHP Nestor Cortes (2-2, 4.66 ERA)

He’s got a 3.00 ERA through four starts with the Padres and is coming off throwing six shutout innings of one-hit ball in beating the Dodgers over the weekend. Cortes has a 4.13 ERA in 32⅔ innings in his career against the Twins. He last faced the Twins in 2023, allowing six runs — five earned — in 12 innings across two starts.

Only four current Twins have history with Cortes:

• OF Byron Buxton (4-for-10, 2B, 2 HRs, 3 RBIs, 3Ks)
• C Ryan Jeffers (1-for-6, HR, 3 Ks, HBP)
• INF Edouard Julien (0-for-3, K)
• OF Trevor Larnach (0-for-2, K)

Twins RHP Zebby Matthews (3-4, 5.30 ERA)

The 25-year-old has a 5.88 ERA in 90⅓ innings since making his debut last year. Matthews has not completed five innings in either of his last two starts and has pitched past the sixth inning just once in 11 starts. He allowed five runs — two earned — in five innings in a loss last year at Petco Park in what was the second start of his career.

Here is how Matthews has fared against current Padres: