{"id":209256,"date":"2025-10-13T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:00:09","slug":"blue-jays-nathan-lukes-leaves-game-1-of-alcs-after-bruising-knee-when-he-fouled-off-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/209256\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Nathan Lukes leaves Game 1 of ALCS after bruising knee when he fouled off pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Jays outfielder Nathan Lukes left Game 1 of the AL Championship Series against Seattle after bruising a knee. Lukes fouled a ball off his right knee in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO(AP) \u2014 Blue Jays outfielder Nathan Lukes left Game 1 of the AL Championship Series against Seattle on Sunday after bruising a knee.<\/p>\n<p>Lukes fouled a ball off his right knee in the first, falling in pain, but stayed in the game and drew a 12-pitch walk. He flied out leading off he third and was replaced by Myles Straw for the start of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a CT scan. Negative for a fracture,\u201d Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mariners-blue-jays-score-alcs-1b33a92079b3b54076c7cb9dd3a65093\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto&#8217;s 3-1 loss<\/a>. &#8220;His knee was pretty sore, obviously. Nate is one of those guys, he doesn\u2019t want to come out of a game ever. I think if he\u2019s medically good to play tomorrow, he\u2019ll be in there.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Lukes went 4 for 12 with five RBIs in Toronto\u2019s Division Series win over the New York Yankees, including a key two-run single in the Game 4 clincher. He also made a diving catch in Toronto\u2019s Game 1 win.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jays outfielder Nathan Lukes left Game 1 of the AL Championship Series against Seattle after bruising a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-209256","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\/209256","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=209256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}