Jung Hoo Lee exits with shoulder injury

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants’ injury woes took a turn for the worse on Sunday.

Less than an hour after placing Michael Conforto on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain and scratching Patrick Bailey from the starting lineup with a viral illness, the Giants lost center fielder Jung Hoo Lee to a left shoulder strain.

Lee, who returned to action for the first time since fouling a ball off his left foot on Wednesday, injured himself after crashing into the center-field fence while attempting to catch Jeimer Candelario’s bases-clearing double off Kyle Harrison in the first inning of Sunday’s series finale against the Reds.

Lee immediately grabbed his left shoulder after going down and didn’t get up for several minutes, with fellow outfielders Mike Yastrzemski and Heliot Ramos quickly calling for team trainers to run out from the dugout to check on him. Lee eventually got up and departed the game, but he didn’t appear to be moving his left arm, which was held by head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner as he walked off the field.

Tyler Fitzgerald entered the game to replace Lee, who entered Sunday batting .262 with a .641 OPS and two homers in 36 games since joining the Giants on a six-year, $113 million deal over the offseason.

Lee is the sixth Giants position player to go down in the last week, as Conforto, Jorge Soler (right shoulder strain), Tom Murphy (left knee sprain), Nick Ahmed (left wrist sprain) and Austin Slater (concussion) are also sidelined. With Lee now likely to join them on the IL, the Giants could promote No. 1 prospect Marco Luciano, who is one of the only callup options remaining on the 40-man roster.