Minnesota right-hander Pablo Lopez departed the Twins’ contest against the Athletics on Tuesday due to tightness in his pitching shoulder.

Lopez was warming up for the bottom of the sixth inning in West Sacramento, Calif., and after his third toss, he motioned to the dugout. He left after a brief conversation with a trainer and manager Rocco Baldelli.

“It looks like it’s a lat strain, but it’s preliminary at this point,” Baldelli said. “It’s safe to say it’s a likely IL (situation), but we have a lot more to learn over the next couple of days. And that’s where we’re going to leave it right now. He’s going to get checked out.”

Lopez said he first felt soreness in the bottom of the fifth inning.

“I tried to stay loose — we had a long inning,” he said. “Then I went out there and made my t

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