Ailing Cubs third baseman misses game with AAA Iowa
By Gordon Wittenmyer gwittenmyer@suntimes.com April 27, 2013 5:32PM
MIAMI -- Rehabbing Cubs third baseman Ian Stewart, who already was struggling at AAA Iowa, missed Friday’s game there because of a sore elbow after being hit by a pitch Thursday.
He was unable to throw Friday, said Cubs manager Dale Sveum, who expected Stewart to return to Iowa’s lineup Saturday, “I would imagine.”
Stewart, who missed all of spring training because of a quad strain, is just 3-for-27 with 10 strikeouts in eight rehab games for the I-Cubs.
Sveum has already said the $2 million third baseman has no guarantee of unseating Luis Valbuena for the starting job when he returns from the disabled list. “He’ll have to earn it,” Sveum said earlier this week.
