"CF B.J. Upton is painfully familiar with shoulder injuries, including surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left after the 2008 season.

So though he was uncomfortable and frustrated to be forced from Monday's game and likely sidelined at least tonight due to a right shoulder strain, he seemed confident the injury was not significant. "This is a little bit different,'' he said. "I'm just glad it's not in the back of my shoulder. I don't think it will be anything too serious. It's more muscle.''

Upton was injured reaching for Delmon Young's eighth-inning drive, not when he collided with the wall a few steps later, then going down quickly and in obvious pain.

"I think I just kind of overextended my right arm, the muscle just kind of went numb, and it started to hurt a little bit," Upton said. After the game he said it had begun to tighten but — with no MRI exam scheduled — he planned to report today to see how he felt and then decide his availability."