{"id":43310,"date":"2025-08-04T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43310\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:25:07","slug":"braves-austin-riley-abdominal-on-il-2nd-time-in-2-months-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43310\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Austin Riley (abdominal) on IL, 2nd time in 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"122673a3-bf06-4432-6950-b8a32e52ac2e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> third baseman <a data-player-guid=\"dbedb213-8691-b041-9a77-b34af9be9889\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34982\/austin-riley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Riley<\/a> was on Monday placed on the 10-day injured list for the second time in two months with a strained lower abdominal muscle.<\/p>\n<p>Riley suffered the injury while tagging out Cincinnati&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"69d42781-0bf5-3c3a-94be-592c98ef717f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917694\/elly-de-la-cruz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> near home plate in the Braves&#8217; 4-2 win on Sunday in the rain-delayed MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Riley also landed on the IL on July 12 with a strained abdomen. He returned on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves recalled infielders Nacho Alvarez Jr. and Jonathan Ornelas from Triple-A Gwinnett before opening a home series against Milwaukee on Monday night. The team optioned outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"15b6bbb4-0c10-01e0-65c3-58a7e449c02a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41150\/jarred-kelenic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarred Kelenic<\/a> to Gwinnett following Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Riley is hitting .260 with 16 homers and 54 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley was on Monday placed on the 10-day injured list for the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-43310","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\/43310","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=43310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}