Taijuan Walker pitched well, but was removed from Sunday's start against the Boston Red Sox after just 88 pitches. He has been dealing with a right foot injury and left his previous start with a strained tendon.

Walker said the foot started to bother him early in Sunday's appearance.

"Yeah, after the first at-bat. Didn't really get any better," he said. "It happened in the first inning and just kept getting worse."

Scott Servais said before the game that he didn't think Walker would be 100 percent, but he'd hoped the adrenaline of starting would negate any lingering problem.

"He really gutted it out, the fourth, fifth inning. After the third inning, his ankle was bothering him," Servais said. "I would like to have kept riding him because he was getting them out, but the information I got and everybody thought it would be best to get him out at that point."