A day after slipping on a metal screen while doing fielding drills, A’s utility player Chad Pinder said his sprained ankle was a little more sore — but he was available to play.

The screen was lying flat in foul territory past third base, and Pinder’s momentum while going to his backhand side carried him onto the edge of it; cleats and metal do not mix well, and he went down hard.

“I was pretty lucky,” he said. “It could have been a lot worse.”

Pinder did some running Thursday morning, and while there was some discomfort, he has the ankle taped up well and can perform all baseball activity.

Manager Bob Melvin said he considered Pinder available for Thursday’s game and he is targeted to start Friday and probably throughout the weekend with Oakland facing three left-handed starters at Seattle.

In other A’s pregame news, catcher Nick Hundley, who is recovering from back spasms and a minor knee cleanup, caught his first bullpen session since going on the injured list and he anticipates being able to go on a rehab assignment in about 10 days.

Jurickson Profar was at second base for the first time since Franklin Barreto was called up Sunday. Melvin said that Profar was scheduled to start Thursday all along and had nothing to do with Barreto’s rough night Wednesday; Barreto is 0 for his past 8 and he made two errors on one play in the seventh inning.

Oakland’s bullpen is on the thin side after the team’s 12-inning loss Wednesday night, with at least four relievers likely to be unavailable. In addition, starter Tanner Anderson, who has struggled to get deep into games, is recovering from a bad cold.

Lefty Wei-Chung Wang is the reliever available to pitch multiple innings Thursday if needed.

Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser