Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio likely will head to the injured list after hurting his hamstring this week.
Chourio didn't play Wednesday in a 10-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs after exiting in the fifth inning of a 9-3 victory a night earlier. Chourio hurt himself while running the bases as he hit a leadoff triple, and the Brewers said afterward he had a spasm in his right hamstring.
"We're going to be cautious there, so it's probably going to be a little bit longer than we initially anticipated," Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold said Thursday. "Not expecting anything excessive, but we just want to be super patient with a player the caliber of Jackson Chourio."
Asked whether Chourio might require a stint on the injured list, Arnold said "it looks like we're trending in that direction."
The 21-year-old Chourio had led off the fifth inning with a shot off the wall in right-center field.
"I think it happened a little bit when I accelerated a touch there to try and get the extra base," Chourio said through an interpreter after Tuesday's game. "I think it was after second there, along the way from when I saw it hit the wall and accelerated a little bit to try to get to third."
Chourio is hitting .276 with a .311 on-base percentage, .474 slugging percentage, 17 homers, 67 RBI and 18 steals in 106 games for the NL Central-leading Brewers. He has reached base in each of his last 22 games and is batting .388 with a .430 on-base percentage, .635 slugging percentage and 17 RBI during that stretch.
In other moves, the Brewers designated left-hander Bryan Hudson and right-hander Elvis Peguero for assignment.
Hudson, 28, was 0-1 with a 4.35 ERA in 12 appearances for Milwaukee and 2-1 with a 6.84 ERA in 25 games with Triple-A Nashville this season. He went 6-1 with a 1.73 ERA for Milwaukee last year.
Peguero, 28, went 0-0 with a 4.91 ERA in six games for Milwaukee and 3-2 with a 3.55 ERA in 27 games for Nashville this year. He had a 3.38 ERA in 59 appearances for Milwaukee in 2023 and a 2.98 ERA in 52 games last season.