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Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera suffered a small fracture in the bone under his right eye after getting hit by a hard grounder in a spring training game Monday.
Cabrera, who received eight stitches to close the bloody wound, told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney Tuesday that the team would re-evaluate him in a week, but he likely will be out at least
a couple of weeks. Cabrera's vision is fine, according to the team.
"I was lucky," he told Olney.
Cabrera left the game, a 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, after taking the wicked one-hopper off the bat of Hunter Pence.
Cabrera's head snapped back as the ball shot up. He stayed on his feet, but seemed dazed as he wiped blood from his face.
"It swelled up," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "Basically he looked like a fighter that needed a cut man and wasn't doing any good in the fight."
Cabrera is making the transition back to third base this spring because Detroit signed first baseman Prince Fielder. Even a Gold Glove third baseman likely would have been hit by Pence's shot.
"He'd be in the same place as Cabrera, getting stitches," Leyland said when asked whether anyone else would have had a chance to make the play.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
