“We’re going to be cautious and then we’ll line him up coming out of the break,” Thomson said. “We haven’t lined it up exactly yet, but we’ll just make sure we take care of him.”

The Phillies are confident skipping Sunday’s start will be enough for the 34-year-old to recover.

Philadelphia doesn’t have a starting pitcher tabbed yet for Sunday’s game against the Oakland Athletics. Thomson said a bullpen game is possible.

“Hopefully, we don’t use a whole lot of bullpen on Saturday,” Thomson said, “and we can run our guys out there and get them some work going into the break.”