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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kansas City Royals outfielder Alex Gordon is intent on playing Friday after missing the last four games due to a wrist sprain, according to&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Kansas City Star's&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Andy McCullough.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of three Royals -- along with catcher&amp;nbsp;Salvador Perez&amp;nbsp;and relief pitcher&amp;nbsp;Greg Holland&amp;nbsp;--&amp;nbsp;named to the American League All-Star team, Gordon, 30, suffered the injury during the team's recent series in Cleveland and re-aggravated it last Monday against Tampa Bay.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manager Ned Yost discussed the injury last week. From MLB.com:&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yost insisted: \"I don't think we're going to have to DL him. It's a sprained wrist. I think he's going to go in, they're going to check it and they're going to inject it, and then, he's going to have four days [during the Detroit series] and four days [during the All-Star period], and he's going to be fine. If I put him on the DL, I'll lose him for another week.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gordon, the No. 2 pick in the 2005 draft, is batting .268 with nine home runs and 44 RBI this season. Angels shortstop Erick Aybar replaced Gordon on the American League All-Star roster.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Royals opened Monday six and a half games back of Detroit in the American League Central and two and a half games back of the second wild card spot.\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alex Gordon says his wrist feels better. He plans to test it on Thursday in KC. He believes he'll be able to play on Friday.\r\n\u2014 Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) July 14, 2014\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;-- Chris Johnson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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