Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez was helped off the field on Friday night with what the team later called a left hamstring injury.

He left the game against the San Francisco Giants in the sixth inning.

Ramirez grabbed the back of his left leg just above the knee after getting thrown out sliding into third as he tried to go from first to third on a single by A.J. Ellis.

He began the season on the disabled list after tearing a ligament in his right thumb during the final of the World Baseball Classic for the champion Dominican Republic in March.