{"id":122179,"date":"2025-09-06T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122179\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:36:12","slug":"angels-rio-foster-in-critical-condition-after-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122179\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Rio Foster in critical condition after car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RICHLAND, Wash. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> minor leaguer Rio Foster was in critical condition after a car accident early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels said Foster was involved in a car accident and that the outfielder is &#8220;receiving medical care at a local hospital and remains in critical condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Foster plays for the High-A Tri-City Dust Devils in Pasco. Tri-City canceled its game against Hillsboro on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thoughts and prayers of the entire Dust Devils organization are with Rio Foster who was a passenger in a car accident early this morning and sustained serious injuries,&#8221; the Dust Devils posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Foster, 22, was a 16th-round pick in the 2023 draft out of Florence-Darlington Technical College in South Carolina. He&#8217;s batting .267 with 10 homers and 40 RBIs this season and was the Northwest League player of the month for August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re praying for the best &#8212; that&#8217;s all we can do,&#8221; Angels interim manager Ray Montgomery said before Friday night&#8217;s game against the Athletics. &#8220;Unfortunately, I&#8217;m working on limited [information] &#8230; what I do know is it&#8217;s obviously way more important than anything we&#8217;re doing here today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just thinking about him and his family. He&#8217;s a great kid. We had him in spring training. He was a little bit of a later round draft pick, and he&#8217;s done some good things. We saw him in spring training, and he was named [Northwest League] player of the month recently, so his career is in a good spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHLAND, Wash. &#8212; Los Angeles Angels minor leaguer Rio Foster was in critical condition after a car accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-122179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}