Roman Anthony injury update: Red Sox outfielder has six-week, follow-up MRI

BOSTON — Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony underwent a follow-up MRI on his injured hand and it came back clean.

“Everything looked good, healing properly,” Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said at Fenway Park on Tuesday. “That does not mean that because the picture said that that it’s like he’s hitting today. Just means that — did a follow-up at the six-week mark just to see things if things are looking good.”

The 22-year-old tore a ligament under his right ring finger while swinging the bat in Detroit on May 4. He’s been on the 10-day injured list since May 7.

Anthony said Saturday that he’s still feeling pain in his hand when he takes dry swings to test whether he can restart his hitting progression.

“It’s still gonna be at his progress and how he feels and the medical staff will determine each day if he’s going to swing and try and see where we’re at,” Tracy said. “And we’ll progress based on medical and his feelings. But definitely a positive step there.”

Anthony has appeared in 30 games this season before the injury, batting .229 with a .354 on-base percentage, .321 slugging percentage and .675 OPS in 130 plate appearances. He has just one home run, five doubles, one triple and five RBIs.

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