Yasiel Puig leaves Dodgers game with right hamstring tightness. Update.

OAKLAND — Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig left Tuesday’s game against the Oakland A’s after pulling up lame at first base when he beat out an infield single in the eighth inning.

Update (10:23 p.m.): Puig left the game with right hamstring tightness.

Carl Crawford pinch-run for Puig and scored on a 3-run home run by A.J. Ellis.

Puig missed 38 games with a strained left hamstring earlier in the season.

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J.P. Hoornstra covers the Dodgers, Angels and Major League Baseball for the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Whittier Daily News and Redlands Daily Facts. Before taking the beat in 2012, J.P. covered the NHL for four years. UCLA gave him a degree once upon a time; when he graduated on schedule, he missed getting Arnold Schwarzenegger's autograph on his diploma by five months.