MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins were without red-hot prospect Alex Kirilloff for Tuesday's 6-3 loss to the Rangers due to soreness in his right wrist -- and there's concern that it could be more serious than that.

The Twins won't have a further update until Kirilloff, the No. 2 prospect in the organization, sees a hand and wrist specialist on Wednesday following some imaging done on Tuesday. Kirilloff was said to have played through the injury at the end of Monday's game but arrived at the ballpark on Tuesday with significant stiffness and soreness, which held him out of baseball activities.

"It doesn't appear to be the most minor of things," manager Rocco Baldelli said. "If it was just minor soreness, he would have been available to play today, and he would have worked through it and got some treatment and so on. But we wanted to get some pictures of his wrist. We're going to hopefully know more once we talk to the specialist."

Baldelli said the Twins couldn't pinpoint the issue to any specific play on Monday, but he noted that Kirilloff mentioned the issue following a slide into second base. Kirilloff went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three runs scored and slid headfirst into the base on his second-inning double.

Kirilloff has a history of trouble with his right wrist, which he sprained in April 2019 while playing for Double-A Pensacola. Though he returned after a month, he went on the injured list again for two and a half weeks in June after the wrist continued to bother him.

The issue held him to 94 games that season.

Though Kirilloff began his MLB career 0-for-15, he was experiencing tough luck on hard-hit balls and saw that fortune begin to turn with four homers, two doubles and 10 RBIs across his last four games. He led the Twins in average exit velocity (96.5 mph) and hard-hit rate (63.3 percent) in limited action.