{"id":139850,"date":"2025-09-13T00:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T00:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:51:14","slug":"tigers-javier-baez-leaves-game-against-marlins-after-foul-tip-strikes-near-his-left-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139850\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers&#8217; Javier B\u00e1ez leaves game against Marlins after foul tip strikes near his left eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier B\u00e1ez left Friday night\u2019s game against the Miami Marlins after he fouled off a pitch that struck near his left eye in the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e1ez swung at a 90 mph changeup from Sandy Alcantara. The ball first deflected off the brim of his batting helmet before making contact near his eye.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e1ez remained on the ground near home plate and was tended to by the Tigers training staff. He quickly reached his feet and left the game. Trey Sweeney completed the at-bat with a strikeout that was credited to B\u00e1ez.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old B\u00e1ez is in the fourth season of a six-year free agent contract with the Tigers. After hitting .184 in 80 games last season, he is hitting .257 and has 11 homers through 117 games in 2025, when he also made his first All-Star Game appearance as a Tiger.<\/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\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier B\u00e1ez left Friday night\u2019s game against the Miami Marlins after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,49,48,490,8638,6388,75356,3981,1447,462,4310,3988,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-139850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-fl-state-wire","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-javier-baez","15":"tag-miami-marlins","16":"tag-michigan","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-mlb-baseball","19":"tag-sandy-alcantara","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}