{"id":174407,"date":"2025-09-28T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:38:10","slug":"trea-turner-to-return-for-phillies-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174407\/","title":{"rendered":"Trea Turner to return for Phillies&#8217; regular-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortstop <a data-player-guid=\"948a03e2-0df4-d2e2-c11d-dbcd7d7b57b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33710\/trea-turner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trea Turner<\/a> will rejoin the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ff1e263a-f6a6-93c3-1373-418623652ff0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> for their regular-season finale Sunday against the <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>, Phillies manager Rob Thomson told reporters Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Turner is on the injured list because of a strained right hamstring. He hasn&#8217;t played since Sept. 7, although the National League East champion Phillies said at the time of the injury that he was expected back by the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46081635\/mlb-2025-playoff-tracker-clinch-scenarios-postseason-bracket-schedule\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/r1552099_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46346881\/mlb-2025-regular-season-final-weekend-guide-watch-playoffs\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759027090_408_r1551075_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Thomson said Turner will play shortstop Sunday but isn&#8217;t expected to go the full nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Turner leads the National League in batting average (.305), and his 179 hits rank second behind the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4dec648c-3eb9-055c-aebc-2711f30975a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sd\/san-diego-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a>&#8216; <a data-player-guid=\"b87dd56f-f15e-897b-b6a6-1ce6491b150a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39572\/luis-arraez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Arraez<\/a> entering Saturday. Turner also has 36 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia lost to the Twins 5-0 on Saturday, locking it into the No. 2 seed in the NL playoffs and assuring the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4750d73d-d92e-b390-758c-2c7b44a810db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> home-field advantage. The Phillies could still finish tied for the best record in baseball with Milwaukee, but the Brewers have the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies starter <a data-player-guid=\"a2a28cf0-f1f0-f347-a089-692e3da7b293\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39817\/ranger-suarez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ranger Suarez<\/a> was hit by a 106 mph line in Saturday&#8217;s game. The team said Suarez had a right thigh contusion and would be evaluated further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortstop Trea Turner will rejoin the Philadelphia Phillies for their regular-season finale Sunday against the Minnesota Twins, Phillies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-174407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174407","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=174407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}