{"id":194217,"date":"2025-10-06T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194217\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:59:08","slug":"mariners-josh-naylor-dealing-with-personal-matter-ahead-of-game-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/194217\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners&#8217; Josh Naylor dealing with personal matter ahead of Game 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/seattle-mariners-josh-naylor-diamondbacks-78ee896db9213c16512111e5a2b6d509\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Naylor<\/a> is dealing with a personal matter, and manager Dan Wilson declined to say Monday whether he traveled with the team to Detroit for the next game of the AL Division Series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll know more tomorrow,&#8221; Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson did not provide more details, but Naylor and his wife have been expecting the birth of their first child.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers will host the Mariners on Tuesday in Game 3 of the ALDS, which is tied at a game apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle seems to be preparing to potentially play without Naylor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a plan in place,&#8221; Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners acquired Naylor from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"43e14a76-ff66-49ed-24fc-2835932f99dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona<\/a> in July. He is 0-for-8 in the series against Detroit after hitting .295 with 20 homers and 92 RBIs in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT &#8212; Seattle Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor is dealing with a personal matter, and manager Dan Wilson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-194217","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\/194217","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=194217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}