Alex Rodriguez was not in the lineup for the New York Yankees on Saturday afternoon because of flu-like symptoms.

Rodriguez was slated to bat fifth and play third against the Baltimore Orioles.

He is hitting .280/.359/.451 with four home runs and 10 RBI in 23 games this season.

Clay Buchholz believes he's on track to return to the Boston Red Sox and start on Sept. 10.

Buchholz pitched 3 1/3 innings Friday night for Triple-A Pawtucket in his second of three scheduled minor league rehab starts.

"I felt really good," he said. "Tonight I was much more impressed with the velocity that I was able to sustain over the period I was out there, and getting over that hump of not really worrying about anything when I'm trying to get a fastball down and away to a righty and have something on it."

Buchholz is working his way back from a bursa-sac shoulder injury.

Matt Kemp got five at-bats in his first rehab game with Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Thursday night, taking the next step towards a return to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

He went 0-for-5 after missing five weeks with a sprained ankle. Kemp served as the team's designated hitter and hit second in the lineup.

"I got more comfortable as the game went on," Kemp said. "I knew I wasn't going to come out feeling super good. But I hit some balls hard and that's all you can ask for."

Justin Upton is day-to-day after being struck on the left hand by a pitch on Thursday night.

Ubaldo Jimenez hit Upton with a 92-mph fastball during a win by the Atlanta Braves over the Cleveland Indians.

X-rays on Upton's hand were negative and the Braves described the injury as a bruise.

Upton is hitting .265/.358/.477 with 24 home runs and 64 RBIs this season.

Miguel Cabrera left Thursday afternoon's game against the A's due to discomfort in his abdomen, the team announced.

The Tigers updated Cabrera's status on their official Twitter account, announcing that the third baseman is considered day to day.

Joe Mauer has not considered sitting out the rest of the season to allow his concussion to heal, according to an ESPN.com report.

Mauer said Thursday he's feeling better, 10 days after he was hit on the face mask by a foul tip behind the plate. 

Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera left Thursday afternoon's game against the A's after appearing to aggravate his troublesome left hip, according to an ESPN.com report.

David Wright has resolved to return to the Mets this season, even though waiting until 2014 to return to action might be the safest course.

Wright has been on the DL since Aug. 3 with a Grade 2 right hamstring strain, the middle of three levels of severity, according to an ESPN.com report.

On his mission to find a non-surgical alternative, young Mets pitcher Matt Harvey is seeking wisdom from the baseball world.

That quest on Tuesday took him to Roy Halladay, one of several players to pitch through unresolved arm issues in the past. Halladay told Harvey that he suffered flexor pronator damage in his forearm around 2006, and never had it repaired.

Shortly after that conversation, Harvey published his now-infamous tweet that he "will be back next year for April 1."

"I just shared that with him and what I went through," Halladay said. "[Dr. James] Andrews had told me that [he] felt like at some point they'd have to go in and repair it. That was eight years ago and I've never had an issue since."

Josh Johnson is done for the season because of a strained right forearm.

Johnson, who hasn't pitched since Aug. 6, won't require surgery.

"We expected a lot, he expected a lot -- it just didn't happen," John Gibbons said of Johnson's disappointing season. "He had the best spring of our staff; he looked better than most guys we faced on other teams. Who knows [why it didn't work]? Nobody knows."

Johnson made just 16 starts and had an ugly 6.20 ERA in 2013.