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Beckham feels pain, delaying comeback

Gordon Beckham was hoping to be back in the White Sox’ lineup Friday night against the Marlins.

Instead, the injured second baseman has been shut down with pain in his surgically repaired left wrist.

Beckham has been on the disabled list since fracturing his hamate bone in an April 9 interleague game at Washington.

After playing in his fifth rehab game with Class AAA Charlotte on Thursday night, Beckham talked with Sox general manager Rick Hahn.

“He actually sent me a text prior to the game (Thursday) night saying how well he felt, that he thought he was getting close to ready,” Hahn said. “I said, ‘Let’s talk again after you play.’ He called me after his game in Rochester last night and said, ‘You know, the pain is still there. It’s not going away. Is there a way we can try to knock this out?’ (Trainer) Herm (Schneider) and I spoke, and they spoke to a surgeon and came up with this new protocol.”

Beckham was given some pain medication, and Hahn said he won’t play again until Wednesday at the earliest. He’ll stay with Charlotte upon his return, so Beckham is at least another week away from rejoining the Sox.

“I don’t want to use the word setback simply because initially when you have this type of surgery, the general timeline is at least six weeks from the surgical date, which is next Tuesday,” Hahn said. “There was some scuttlebutt that he could be back as soon as this weekend, but that would have been ahead of schedule. So we are still kind of on that original timeframe. ... We have him back out there next week, and we are sort of erring on the side of caution here, and let the pain cycle get broken first before he plays again.”

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