{"id":620702,"date":"2026-04-21T05:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:10:19","slug":"braves-ronald-acuna-jr-hit-by-pitches-twice-then-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620702\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Ronald Acuna Jr. hit by pitches twice, then exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36185\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Acuna Jr.<\/a> left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a>&#8216; game in the sixth inning after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nationals<\/a> starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41290\/jake-irvin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Irvin<\/a> hit him with a pitch for a second time Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves were trailing 2-0 when Irvin hit Acuna with a 92 mph fastball leading off the fourth. Atlanta was down 3-2 with no outs in the sixth when Irvin hit him with a 91 mph fastball.<\/p>\n<p>The second pitch appeared to hit Acuna in the left hand, and he yelled in pain. The Braves said X-rays were negative, and Acuna was day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Acuna was in the on-deck circle when the sixth inning ended, but he didn&#8217;t come out for the bottom half. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39963\/eli-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli White<\/a> replaced him in right field.<\/p>\n<p>Braves starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4301067\/bryce-elder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Elder<\/a> hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917889\/daylen-lile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daylen Lile<\/a> to start the bottom of the sixth, prompting umpires to issue warnings to both dugouts.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta went on to win, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/mlb\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401815016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Ronald Acuna Jr. left the Atlanta Braves&#8216; game in the sixth inning after Nationals starter Jake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-620702","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\/620702","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=620702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}