Right, so Why a scheduled day off? He'd only played 3 days. One at DH.
Some sort of injury? OK.
Covid fatigue? Maybe, I guess, but that seems unlikely, and that's not what Baldelli implied.
But a previously scheduled day off? Which would have had to have been scheduled much earlier? They're not setting up a new schedule that has him resting after 3 days.
So again...seems odd.