{"id":637328,"date":"2026-04-29T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:45:08","slug":"rays-third-baseman-junior-caminero-leaves-game-vs-guardians-due-to-bruised-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637328\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; third baseman Junior Caminero leaves game vs. Guardians due to bruised jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Tampa Bay third baseman Junior Caminero is day-to-day with a bruised jaw after getting struck with a foul tip during the first inning of Tuesday night\u2019s game against Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero was injured when he fouled a cutter from Cleveland\u2019s Tanner Bibee off the plate. The ball bounced off the plate and hit him in the area of the right jaw. Caminero fell to the ground and was face down for a couple minutes as Tampa Bay\u2019s trainer came out.<\/p>\n<p>Caminero was examined for a couple minutes before deciding to remain in for the at-bat. He grounded out to Bibee before being replaced by Ben Williamson. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year old Caminero \u2014 who spent three years in Cleveland\u2019s organization \u2014 leads the Rays with eight home runs and had hit safely in 12 of his last 14 games before Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Tampa Bay third baseman Junior Caminero is day-to-day with a bruised jaw after getting struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,31392,6115,8103,2755,47318,591,6784,28148,12293,85,1190,102028],"class_list":["post-637328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-ben-williamson","tag-cleveland","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-junior-caminero","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tanner-bibee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637328","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=637328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}