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ATLANTA -- Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman will not play in the All-Star game after jamming his left thumb. General manager Frank Wren said Sunday that Freemans injury will keep him out of the game. Freeman jammed his left thumb on the first play of Saturday nights 5-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds. Shortstop Andrelton Simmons fielded Chris Heiseys grounder and threw slightly wide of first base, forcing Freeman to catch the ball in Heiseys path. Heisey hit Freemans glove and was out. "I guess my thumb was in the wrong place," Freeman said. "Its just one of those freak injuries I seem to run into every year." Freeman remained in the game. He wore a soft splint on his left hand and is not playing in Sundays game. He said there is "a little bit of tiny swelling" in the thumb. "I can still bend it and do everything," Freeman said. "Its not too bad, so Im just going to take a day off and see how it goes." Freeman made the All-Star roster by finishing ahead of Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig on the fan vote. Freeman will still make the trip to New York for the All-Star game. Before the decision was made that Freeman will not play in the All-Star game, he said the priority is protecting his health for the NL East-leading Braves. "Ive got to look out for the best interests of this team, so Ive got to be available to play in the second half," Freeman said. "If I cant play in the All-Star game, were better off if Im able to play in the second half." Manager Fredi Gonzalez said Freeman can receive treatment for the injury while at the All-Star game. "I think he needs to go," Gonzalez said. "... You never know when that chance will come again." Evan Gattis, who had been out since June 18 with a right oblique strain, was activated from the 15-day disabled list and is starting at first base. Gattis came off the DL after playing only two games in his injury rehabilitation stint with Triple-A Gwinnett. The original plan had been for Gattis to remain with Gwinnett through Sunday. "It was good," Gattis said of his rehab stint. "I felt good to square up the ball last night. That tells me Im ready." Gattis, whose primary position is catcher, has started 11 games in left field and only three games at first base. B.J. Upton, who left Friday nights game with a right adductor muscle strain, was placed on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Saturday. "Weve got a break coming up and I just need a little more time to get healthy," Upton said, adding his recovery "is not a thing thats going to happen immediately." Justin Upton also left Friday nights game with what was announced as a left calf strain. On Sunday, Gonzalez said team doctors concluded the injury was just a severe cramp. Gonzalez said Justin Upton would be available in an emergency situation Sunday. 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LOUIS -- Heading into the final stretch of the season, the issues for the Chicago Bears banged-up defence only seem to be getting worse.SEATTLE -- Jimmy Grahams statement about his most productive game since suffering a major knee injury was left to what he did on the field, all of it coming in one impressive half on Sunday.Hes a phenomenal athlete and its going to be cool to see him develop more so in our offense this year, Seattle tight end Luke Willson said.Less than a year after suffering a torn patellar tendon in his right knee, Graham was back to being a focal point for Seattle.He finished with six catches for 100 yards and just his third touchdown catch with the Seahawks in a 37-18 romp of the San Francisco 49ers .All of his catches came in the first half as Seattle built a 24-3 lead and rolled to a fifth straight regular-season win over the 49ers.After the game, Graham shared smiles and a handshake with team owner Paul Allen in the Seahawks locker room, then disappeared down a hallway and didnt poke his head back into the locker room again.He wanted to have this kind of impact in the game, Seattle coach Pete Carroll said. He looked great. Its thrilling to see him.Graham was not supposed to be back by now. Being back on the field in 9+ months is not the typical timeline of an injury as severe as the one he suffered last November against Pittsburgh and just as he was beginning to find a more prominent role in Seattles offense.Carroll continued to say through the offseason that Graham was on pace to be ready for the season opener and he proved correct when Graham took the field in Week 1 against Miami.But getting back on the field and being the threat Graham was in the past are two separate matters. And the latter is what Graham showed against the 49ers.His 18-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter came on a broken play when Russell Wilson scrambled left and found Graham coming open in the middle of the field. But his two most important catches both came in third-down situations.Seattle was faciing third-and-15 on its second possession.dddddddddddd Wilson threw a strike down the middle and Graham was able to hold on to an 18-yard catch despite a crunching hit from safety Eric Reid. Graham caught a 12-yard pass later in the drive to set up Christine Michaels second TD run of the game.But the catch everyone was talking about was Grahams 40-yard jump-ball reception where he wrestled the ball out of Reids arms as he came down.It was a free play because the 49ers had jumped offside, but Wilson gave Graham the chance to use his athleticism and size to make the catch. He also showed a trust in Graham that was always being worked on last season.Hes like 6-(foot)-9. Just throw it up to him, Wilson joked. You look down the field just trying to find somebody and there is this big guy running down the field and just tried to give him a chance.Graham was once the primary target of a pass-happy offense as he was during his time in New Orleans. Thats not how it works in Seattle, even with Marshawn Lynch gone and Wilson having shown he can run more of a pass-based offense.What he showed against the 49ers was still having the ability to make defenses account for his presence on the field.Jimmy has done an excellent job of being patient. Sometimes it can be frustrating because he came from an offense where he was seeing all these targets and thats just not the way that we do it here, Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin said.But hes been patient and hes bought in with the fact that were more about controlling the game with the ground game and making the best of our opportunities when we get the targets. ... Hes fully bought into the fact that this is how we play football.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '