HOUSTON -- Taylor Ward was out of the lineup Monday, one day after being carted off the field and taken to a hospital via ambulance after colliding with the out-of-town scoreboard on the left-field wall at Daikin Park.

But Ward said he was feeling “way better,” slept well Sunday night and woke up with no headaches, admitting that he was “lucky” after receiving nearly 20 stitches near his eyebrow area.

Ward was tested multiple times for a concussion Sunday, but he passed and expected to pass the same tests again Monday.

“They didn’t give me an exact number [of stitches], but he worked on me for a while,” Ward said. “I’m going to say around 20, somewhere around there. They had to go in. There was a muscle he had to stitch up and then a vein as well. I got it pretty deep.”

Ward was ra

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