{"id":78953,"date":"2025-08-19T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78953\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:15:07","slug":"day-after-career-high-os-jordan-westburg-leaves-with-sore-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/78953\/","title":{"rendered":"Day after career high, O&#8217;s Jordan Westburg leaves with sore ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 18, 2025, 08:05 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON &#8212; One day after a career performance with four hits and five RBI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orioles<\/a> third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4298641\/jordan-westburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Westburg<\/a> left Monday night&#8217;s 6-3 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox<\/a> in the top of the first inning with a sore right ankle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think it&#8217;s probably mild,&#8221; Orioles manager Tony Mansolino said after the game. &#8220;But I think we&#8217;ll probably kind of wait to see how he wakes up in the morning, and we&#8217;ll probably have a better idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=401696767\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westburg tied his career high with four hits<\/a>, including a three-run homer, and had a career-best five RBI on Sunday to help the Orioles beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> 12-0. In the top of the first in Boston, he reached on a fielder&#8217;s choice and took second on a single before he was lifted for a pinch runner.<\/p>\n<p>Westburg is batting .276 with 15 homers and 34 RBI this season. He also missed all of May with a left hamstring strain before returning on June 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 18, 2025, 08:05 PM ET BOSTON &#8212; One day after a career performance with four hits and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-78953","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\/78953","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=78953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}