MLB Note - Minnesota Twins Buxton, Byron

Jul 29, 2017 - 8:20 AM OF Byron Buxton (left groin strain/migraine headaches) began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Rochester on Friday night and led off the game with a home run. Buxton started in center field and went 2-for-4 with a walk. Buxton initially landed on the DL on July 15 with a groin injury. The Twins planned to activate him on Tuesday against the Dodgers, but migraines sidelined him that day and Wednesday. "Originally if we had brought him back on his eligible day on Tuesday, it would have been a 10-day break roughly with a lot of baseball work," Twins manager Paul Molitor said Friday. "As it turned out, he missed a couple of days in L.A. with the migraines. We were looking at two weeks. I thought not only to find out, make sure that leg was good, but that the symptoms of the migraines were behind him that to get out and play for the weekend made sense." Buxton is expected to play two more games for Rochester.