Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr. injury news isn't ideal update for Atlanta

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The Atlanta Braves will have to do without their superstar for at least a little while.

The news probably could've been worse, but Ronald Acuña Jr.'s injury is sending him to the Injured List.

It's just the 10-day IL for Acuña, the Braves announced Sunday.

“The MRI showed a Grade 1 strain, so not too serious, but serious enough that we had to put him on the list,” manager Walt Weiss told reporters on Sunday, via MLB.com. “It's not going to be just a couple days. It’s gonna be more than that, so we need to put him on the IL, and hopefully it'll be sooner than later. No idea with these soft tissue injuries how long they're gonna take, but I think the silver lining is that the MRI showed it wasn't too serious.”

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Acuña hadn't missed a game yet this season, starting 33 in the outfield and one at DH before getting injured.

The injury occurred at the plate on Saturday, with Acuña clearly tweaking something before hobbling toward first base on a ball in play.