Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn left Sunday's outing due to a hip injury but insists he would have continued pitching had it been a regular-season game, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
"I would have figured it out," Lynn said. "It’s something that I always feel. There are times when you can push through it. I know how to push through it. They’re going to make sure I’m smart about it. They’re going to make me take it slow. … When it’s all said and done, I’m going to be able to make my next start."
Lynn said he "pulled back" while going for a ground ball.
"I think if I went after that the way that I could go after it, something bad might have happened," Lynn said. "So I made sure that I pulled back. I went to go (for the ball) and I thought, 'I don’t know if that’s a good idea.' I tried to throw the next pitch and it wasn’t going the way I wanted to go. Something worse would have happened."
Lynn said he expects to throw a bullpen session on his regular schedule, but manager Mike Matheny indicated a new schedule would be made based upon the results of tests on the injured hip Monday.