Bryant placed on IL with fractured finger

WASHINGTON -- Bad breaks keep following Kris Bryant, whose fractured left index finger led to him being placed on the 10-day injured list on Tuesday.

Since signing a seven-year, $182 million contract with the Rockies last spring, Bryant is headed for his fifth stint on the IL.

“It’s just unfortunate -- it just seems to be one thing after another,” manager Bud Black said. “He just can’t get any momentum. But I do think the tide will turn for Kris, and he’ll string together lots of good baseball.”

This injury occurred after he was hit by a pitch from Johnny Cueto during Saturday night’s 4-3 Colorado victory at Miami. An examination that day did not reveal a fracture, but it showed up during a follow-up examination in Washington on Monday.

Last Wednesday at home against the Astros, Bryant was hit on the left wrist and later exited that game, but he escaped any broken bones. But Bryant doesn’t tend to have good fortune with health for long.

Last season, Bryant missed 21 games in April and May with a back problem, and he didn’t play after July 31 because of plantar fasciitis in his left foot. This year, a left foot injury he sustained in late May cost him 27 games, and he now is back on the IL. In 107 games in his two seasons with the Rockies, Bryant has slashed .273/.353/.417 with 13 home runs and 37 RBIs.

There is no timetable for the current injury, but Black said it does not require surgery.