The Chicago Cubs placed left-hander Justin Steele on the 15-day injured list on Wednesday because of left elbow tendinitis.

Steele (3-1) said he began to feel discomfort during the fourth or fifth inning of his most recent start, a 7-0 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday.

“I was just doing stuff between innings to try and keep it warm, moving around. I told the trainers the next day, I want to come in and do a lot of recovery stuff, red light, do everything I can to get the recovery process underway,” Steele said Wednesday. “They just made the decision to go ahead and put me on the IL.”

Despite the soreness, Steele threw seven scoreless innings against Texas, striking out eight and allowing just three hits. Steele, an All-Star in 2023, has a 4.76 ERA in 22 2/3 innings in four starts this season.

chicken WINGS off menu FOR BELLINGER

New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger is swearing off chicken wings.

“I will not eat wings for five years,” Bellinger told reporters on Wednesday, a day after he was scratched from the lineup with a suspected case of food poisoning.

Bellinger said he had chicken wings at the team’s hotel in the Motor City while watching the NCAA men’s basketball championship game on Monday night and had an adverse reaction.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Bellinger started dealing with an upset stomach after the Yankees lost the series-opening game in Detroit, and the ailment lingered long enough that he didn’t play Tuesday.

Bellinger, the 2017 NL Rookie of the Year and 2019 NL MVP while with the Dodgerts, is in his first season with the Yankees after two with the Cubs.

RANGERS’ LANGFORD GOES ON INJURED LIST

The Texas Rangers placed Wyatt Langford on the 10-day injured list with an abdominal muscle strain.

The 23-year-old left fielder was removed from Tuesday night’s game against the Chicago Cubs after his plate appearance in the seventh inning. He was diagnosed with a right oblique strain.

Langford is batting .244 with a team-best four home runs. His 12 home runs since Sept. 1, 2024, rank second in the American League behind Aaron Judge’s 13 for the New York Yankees.

ASTROS’ ARRIGHETTI will avoid surgery

Houston Astros right-hander Spencer Arrighetti will wear a cast but not require surgery on his broken right thumb, manager Joe Espada said.

Arrighetti was injured when he was hit by a line drive while playing catch in left field before Monday night’s game at Seattle.

He was placed on the 15-day IL on Tuesday.

Espada said Arrighetti will be in a cast for up to two-and-a-half weeks. He’ll then have additional testing before starting physical therapy.

Arrighetti is 1-1 with a 5.59 ERA in two starts this season.