ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Orioles pitching prospect Hunter Harvey is scheduled to have an MRI on his right elbow area today following his abrupt departure from his most recent start at short-season Aberdeen.

Harvey, who was pitching in Aberdeen in an effort to build up innings following sports hernia surgery in May, left Saturday's game after just 11/3?innings and 23 pitches against Batavia.

Harvey, 21, was the Orioles' first-round draft pick (22nd overall) in 2013. He was working up his inning count, first pitching in the Gulf Coast League before making his third start with the IronBirds on Saturday. In his previous start with Aberdeen, Harvey threw a season-high 69 pitches and allowed nine baserunners and three runs — two earned — over a season-high 31/3 innings.

It's the latest setback in Harvey's injury-plagued career. He was shut down one month early in 2014, his first full minor league season, with forearm soreness and he missed the entire 2015 season, first with a hairline fracture in his shin after taking a comebacker in a minor league spring training game and then with more arm soreness.

He received a platelet-rich plasma injection to help his recovery, but didn't pitch for the rest of the season.

Manager Buck Showalter said the report he received on Harvey's outing showed that the pitcher had been performing well before leaving the game.

“I was just looking at” the report, Showalter said. “He had good stuff, good velocity. I'm just hoping it was a precautionary thing. I'm not sure. … [Player development director] Brian [Graham] just said he had some soreness there that they didn't like his description of it, but he was [throwing] 96. He was good.”

Kim sticking with team: Outfielder Hyun Soo Kim tested his right hamstring before Sunday's game and the team determined he had improved enough to accompany the squad to New York.

There's still no guarantee that Kim, who strained his hamstring July 10 while running to first base in his first at-bat, will play in the Orioles' forthcoming four-game series against the Yankees, but he's close enough that the team would rather keep him on the travel squad than leave him in Florida to rehabilitate at the spring training facility in Sarasota.

“He's closer. He could do a lot of things today he couldn't do, wasn't as good at on Thursday, so that was encouraging,” Showalter said.

Kim, who was listed among the team's available reserves for Sunday's series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, performed a variety of running drills before Sunday's game and Showalter said he did well, only feeling any tinge of discomfort during the final set of drills.

Kim said Saturday he believed he felt good enough to play. If he doesn't play by Wednesday — the last of 10 days a team can backdate a disabled-list stint — he would likely be placed on the DL. In that case, Kim would be eligible to return July 26.

Worley to start Tuesday: Despite throwing 12/3 innings of relief in Sunday's 5-2 loss to Tampa Bay, right-hander Vance Worley will fill the team's rotation hole Tuesday against the Yankees, Showalter said.

Worley needed just 16 pitches to retire all five batters he faced Sunday, so Showalter said the outing was treated more like a side bullpen session.

Worley hadn't made a start since April 15. Since then, he's been a valuable weapon in long relief. He has a 2.34 ERA in 342/3 relief innings and a 5.06 ERA in two starts this season.

Around the horn: Shortstop J.J. Hardy extended his hit streak to 10 games Sunday. He is hitting .385/.400/.641 over that stretch. … The Orioles dropped to 30-10 when scoring first this season.

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