MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins recalled outfielder Jake Cave from Triple-A Rochester on Sunday morning as they placed the versatile Willians Astudillo on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain sustained Saturday against the Orioles.

Cave made the Twins' Opening Day roster as the fourth outfielder but was optioned down to Rochester on Wednesday to get more consistent playing time when Minnesota shortened its bench and expanded to a 13-man pitching staff. Cave was 7-for-30 with a double and four walks in 12 games in his earlier stint with the Twins.

“Ideally, he would be getting at-bats, whether it's here or Rochester, and that was part of the plan … to get him going and get him into the swing of things and playing regularly," manager Rocco Baldelli said. "When you do have injuries, you look around and you go, 'This is a guy that when we do put him in the lineup, this is a guy that we want out here playing for us in the big leagues.'"

Cave's current stint in the Major Leagues could be a short one, as the continued success of all three starting outfielders -- Eddie Rosario, Byron Buxton and Max Kepler -- make consistent playing time a challenge. Yet the Twins would like him to be prepared for a possible everyday role when needed, as was the case when he filled in as the everyday center fielder in Buxton's absence last season.

Twins to give away gloves to local children
Buxton, Mitch Garver, Martin Perez and Astudillo will distribute more than 3,000 new baseball gloves to children age 8 and under at two locations in the Twin Cities area on Sunday evening as part of the Twins' Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and St. Paul Parks and Recreation.

Buxton and Garver will appear at the Waite Park Recreation Center in Minneapolis, while Perez and Astudillo will be at the Rice and Arlington Sports Complex in St. Paul at 6:15 p.m. CT.