The way manager Mike Scioscia sounded before the Friday’s game, Howie Kendrick might be going on the disabled list with a bum hamstring. Scioscia never likes to give away any information before he has to so it takes some reading betwen the lines sometimes to figure out what might be happening.

“(Kendrick) ran today,” Scioscia said. “We’ll evlauate him as the game goes on and after the game (to see) how he feels. We’ll see how he comes out of it. He felt something there and we’ll make a determination of how quickly he’s moving in the right direction. It’s getting better, but the pace of this is what we want to pay attention to.”

The fact that Kendrick “felt something” is a setback. The need to evaluate him after the game sounds like a player might already be on the way from Triple-A Salt Lake (Brandon Wood? Matt Brown?)

“Today was his first real running and he felt it a little bit,” Scioscia said again. “We’ll see how it works through the days, how it feels after the game and we’ll make a determination.”

Scioscia said Thursday that a decision on Kendrick wouldn’t be made until next week’s series at Boston. The fact that something will be decided after today’s game sounds like Kendrick is DL bound. Stay tuned.