CLEVELAND, Ohio — It didn’t take long for Francisco Lindor to get into the swing of things during his first rehab game Tuesday with the Columbus Clippers.

The Cleveland Indians’ three-time American League All-Star shortstop began his rehab assignment with the Clippers hitting second against the Louisville Bats. In the fifth inning, Lindor smashed the first pitch he saw from Cincinnati prospect Keury Mella to deep right field and out of Louisville Slugger Field to tie the score at 3-3.

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Lindor grounded out to second base in his first at-bat and singled to right in the third inning before striking out against Sal Romano in the sixth. He exited the game in the sixth and was replaced in the batting order by Brandon Barnes. Defensively, Lindor recorded assists on ground outs in the second, fourth and fifth innings.

Lindor missed all of Cleveland’s spring training games after coming to camp with a right calf strain suffered during a February workout in Florida. Before leaving the team’s Goodyear, Arizona training facility in March, Lindor sprained his left ankle when he got caught in a rundown during a B-squad game.

Louisville held an 8-5 lead midway through the sixth inning.

Shao-Ching Chiang started and pitched four innings for Columbus, allowing eight earned runs on nine hits with six strikeouts. Eric Haase added a solo home run in the sixth while Oscar Mercado, Jordan Luplow and Bobby Bradley and Trayce Thompson doubled for the Clippers.

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