{"id":584182,"date":"2026-04-04T03:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:07","slug":"byron-buxton-has-right-forearm-contusion-x-rays-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584182\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Buxton has right forearm contusion, X-rays negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a6e97b3f-4244-98be-79a2-f4b33f3365e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> All-Star outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"615b99eb-8129-09f0-e7f9-8841982a341a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32655\/byron-buxton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Byron Buxton<\/a> exited Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401814791\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">10-4 home-opener win<\/a> over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f8a579c6-08b9-7584-141d-317d0645763b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> because of a right forearm contusion.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins announced X-rays showed no fracture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an arm,&#8221; Buxton told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/twins\/news\/byron-buxton-exits-with-right-forearm-contusion-after-hit-by-pitch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to MLB.com<\/a>. &#8220;It ain&#8217;t broken, so I&#8217;m good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buxton was injured in the bottom of the seventh inning when he was hit by a 91.6 mph fastball from Rays reliever <a data-player-guid=\"fe620c75-4c6e-350b-a3a5-25cad1d12eee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5001153\/kevin-kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Kelly<\/a>. Buxton immediately went to the dugout and was replaced by <a data-player-guid=\"6ebded6f-beba-43ae-d38e-7d54c673f223\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41802\/james-outman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Outman<\/a> in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Buxton was 0-for-3 in the win with a strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins All-Star outfielder Byron Buxton exited Friday&#8217;s 10-4 home-opener win over the Tampa Bay Rays because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-584182","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\/584182","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=584182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}