{"id":286920,"date":"2025-11-15T21:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286920\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:12:08","slug":"enrique-hernandez-has-elbow-surgery-will-miss-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286920\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrique Hernandez has elbow surgery, will miss WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent utility man <a data-player-guid=\"28741fed-34f4-45a6-7159-75e96f7f0155\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31358\/enrique-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enrique Hernandez<\/a> had left elbow surgery Friday for an injury he played through during the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>&#8216; World Series-winning run.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRFfvJ9icIO\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted about the surgery on Instagram<\/a>, saying he had played through the injury since May and that it would keep him from playing for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic next year.<\/p>\n<p>He missed more than a month on the injured list during the season due to his elbow but returned in August.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, 34, batted .203 with 10 home runs and 35 RBIs in 92 games during the regular season before posting a .250 average with one home run and seven RBIs in the playoffs as the Dodgers won a second straight title.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent utility man Enrique Hernandez had left elbow surgery Friday for an injury he played through during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286920","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=286920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}