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Ramos

Ramos will continue ramping up at San Francisco’s spring training complex in Arizona just over two weeks after hitting the injured list with a right quad strain. He remains without a return timetable at this juncture.

The Giants are hopeful that the injection will take care of the quad strain that Ramos had been battling and that he’ll be able to start building back up after resting for a week. As of now there’s no clear timeline for a potential return to the Giants’ lineup.

Ramos picked up the strain during Friday’s game against the Athletics. The 26-year-old will be out of action for at least a week-plus, but quad strains generally lead to a little longer stint on the shelf. Will Brennan has been recalled from Triple-A Sacrament to take Ramos’ place on the roster.

Ramos left Friday’s game with tightness in his quad, and he’ll miss at least one more game. The 26-year-old will recover on the bench with Drew Gilbert starting in left field in his absence.

Ramos was replaced by Casey Schmitt in left field after looking uncomfortable during a sixth-inning at-bat. The 26-year-old finished 1-for-3 at the dish prior to exiting. Giants manager Tony Vitello told reporters afterwards that the injury occurred while Ramos went all-out trying to make a play defensively. It’s unclear whether he’ll undergo imaging in addition to further evaluation and treatment. It doesn’t sound like a potential injured list situation, but fantasy managers should keep a close eye on his status for the rest of the weekend.

The third run he scored was the winning run in the 12th, though he achieved that by grounding out softly with the bases loaded to end the 11th. Before that, Ramos collected his fourth homer and 10th double. His .743 OPS ranks second to Casey Schmitt on the Giants, and he’s first on the team with 17 runs scored and tied with Schmitt for first in RBI with 18. It’d be nice if he played better defense in left, but he hasn’t been one of the Giants’ problems this season.

Heliot Ramos is up to third. Chapman had hit sixth once and somewhere between second and fifth the rest of the time this year. Chapman is batting just .227/.301/.305 this year, with a 32 percent hard-hit rate way off his career mark of 48 percent. Plus, he’s never been a particularly good RBI guy even in his better seasons. Still, he’ll warm up and resume hitting higher at some point. Unless Rafael Devers is back, there just isn’t much difference in quality among the top seven hitters in San Francisco’s lineup.

All three hits were against left-handed pitchers. Ramos started the game with a double to center and added on a few hits to right-center later in the contest, though he was stranded each of those times. He’s now hitting .379/.438/.621 against lefties and actually led off the game here against LHP Cristopher Sánchez, so he has a little added utility in daily transaction leagues where he can be spotted against left-handers.

Ramos had one of only two Giants hits when he doubled off Phillies starter Jesús Luzardo in the third inning. The 26-year-old outfield got off to a slow start this season, but now has 12 hits, three home runs, six runs and seven RBI over his last 10 games.

Ramos continues to swing a hot bat, collecting two more hits on Saturday. After knocking a base hit in the sixth inning, he took Tyler Phillips deep for a solo homer to lead off the eighth. It was a rare opposite-field homer by a right-handed hitter at Oracle Park. The 26-year-old outfielder is hitting .277/.320/.426 with three homers, 11 runs scored, and 14 steals across 100 plate appearances.