St. Louis Cardinals officially place Matt Holliday on DL with fractured thumb

The St. Louis Cardinals officially placed outfielder Matt Holliday on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a fractured thumb suffered in Thursday night's game.

The move is retroactive to Friday and the team also purchased the contract of rookie right-hander Luke Weaver from Triple-A Memphis to start in his major league debut against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.

Holliday, 36, was hurt while batting in the 10th inning of a game the Cardinals went on to lose 4-3 to the Cubs in 11 innings. A fastball from Cubs left-hander Mike Montgomery caught Holliday in the hand.

After going 1-for-3 with a walk in the game, Holliday is hitting .242 with a .318 on-base percentage, a .450 slugging percentage, 19 home runs and 60 RBIs in 107 games this year.

Weaver, 22, has made 38 career minor league starts and holds a 15-9 record with a 1.78 ERA over 197 2/3 innings. He has struck out 192 batters and walked 35 in those starts.

The 6-foot-2, 170-pound Weaver began the 2016 season on the disabled list after a wrist injury suffered during spring training sidelined him until June. He joined Double-A Springfield, where he made 12 starts with a 6-3 record and 1.40 ERA. He was promoted to Memphis, where he made one start on Monday at New Orleans and earned the win, giving up just two singles over six scoreless innings with two walks and four strikeouts.

Weaver, selected by St. Louis with its first-round draft pick (27th player overall) in 2014 out of Florida State, becomes the 11th Cardinals starting pitcher to make his major league debut at Wrigley Field.