Ryan Vogelsong lets Giants know he is OK

Angel Pagan already has missed 11 games with a hamstring injury. Now he will miss at least two more weeks. Angel Pagan already has missed 11 games with a hamstring injury. Now he will miss at least two more weeks. Photo: Lenny Ignelzi, Associated Press Photo: Lenny Ignelzi, Associated Press Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Ryan Vogelsong lets Giants know he is OK 1 / 3 Back to Gallery

Ryan Vogelsong was very much on the minds of his former mates a day after he was hit around the eye by a 92-mph fastball in Monday’s Rockies-Pirates game in Pittsburgh.

Manager Bruce Bochy and former Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt exchanged texts with Vogelsong, who is in the hospital waiting for the swelling around his left eye to subside so doctors can gauge the extent of the fractures that will need to be repaired in surgery.

Affeldt relayed some good news: Vogelsong’s vision in that eye, a source of concern, was returning gradually Tuesday.

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“He’s doing all right,” Bochy said. “We’re all concerned about him. We all think the world of Vogy. That was not pretty. He never saw the ball. You could tell. He ducked into it a little bit.”

The pitch from Jordan Lyles landed Vogelsong on the disabled list. He was making his second start for the Pirates after making the team as a reliever.

Outfielder swap: The Giants could have used a right-handed-hitting outfielder when they placed Angel Pagan on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday, but lefty-hitting Jarrett Parker was much hotter and got the call over Mac Williamson.

Parker was leading the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League with 13 homers and earned his second promotion this month. The Giants want Williamson to get more Triple-A at-bats. Moreover, Bochy said Williamson was hitting worse against lefties than righties, not what the team wants from a right-handed call-up.

Pagan reinjured his left hamstring running to first base in the eighth inning Monday night. Bochy said the strain is not worse than May 1, when Pagan first got hurt. He missed 11 games recovering, but the Giants did not place him on the disabled list because they did not want to lose him for 15 days.

Bochy said the DL was a “no-brainer” this time.

“We’re going to give him the full two weeks off to get rid of this thing,” Bochy said.

Meanwhile, Hunter Pence took a step back a day after his game-winning pinch double and did not take any batting practice, hoping that would hasten his recovery from a hamstring strain.

“I’m going to let it heal and not be so stubborn,” Pence said. He hopes to rejoin the lineup by Friday in Colorado.

Henry Schulman is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.

On deck

Wednesday

vs. Padres

12:45 p.m. CSNBA

Shields (2-6)

vs. Peavy (1-5)

Thursday

Off

Friday

at Rockies

5:40 p.m. Channel: 11

Cain (1-5) vs.

Butler (2-2)

Leading off

Rare hit: Hunter Pence’s game-winning double Monday was his fourth career pinch-hit in 11 at-bats, his first to end a game. Overall, it was his 10th walk-off hit and first since 2013.

— Henry Schulman