Astudillo (hamstring) placed on 10-day IL

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins placed the multipositional Willians Astudillo on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain and recalled outfielder Jake Cave on Sunday. Astudillo was removed from the Twins' 9-2 win against the Orioles on Saturday with tightness in the hamstring following the third inning.

"It's part of baseball, and right now, I'm trying to assimilate with what's going on and think about it and work hard," Astudillo said through an interpreter. "Hopefully, in 10 days, I'm back."

Astudillo said that the injury was sustained while he was tagging up from third base on Max Kepler's sacrifice fly to give the Twins the lead. He was sprinting down the line to beat the throw of left fielder Dwight Smith Jr. but appeared to pull up and slow slightly as he neared home plate.

"He wanted to stay in the game," manager Rocco Baldelli said. "He's a competitive guy. I was expecting to see that unless his leg fell off, which it did not."

Astudillo started the game in right field but did not appear with the defense in the fourth inning, as Ehire Adrianza entered the game at third base, pushing Marwin Gonzalez into the outfield. Byron Buxton also later entered the game as a defensive replacement.

The 27-year-old Astudillo, who was making his second career start in right, had hit a 106.9-mph single to lead off the bottom of the third inning -- the second-hardest batted ball of his career -- before moving to third on a fielding error and scoring the game's first run on the sacrifice fly.

Astudillo was hitting .327/.340/.531 with two homers, four doubles and seven RBIs in 16 games and played five defensive positions -- catcher, first base, third base, left field and right field -- in 2019.