Lance Lynn left Sunday's spring training game during the second inning with a left hip flexor strain, the Cardinals announced.
Lynn faced three batters in the second but did not record an out; nine of his 15 pitches in the inning were balls. The eventual diagnosis was something of a surprise, though, since Lynn has dealt with blister problems in the past and his hand had appeared to be bothering him.
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Lynn was fiddling w/ his hand before and as he walked off the field. But #Cardinals announce hip flexor strain, evaluated tomorrow #stlcards
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) March 8, 2015
Lynn, 27, posted a career-best 2.74 ERA last season and has topped 200 innings in each of the last two seasons. He avoided arbitration earlier this year by agreeing to a three-year, $22 million contract.