{"id":253931,"date":"2025-11-01T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253931\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T05:57:12","slug":"blue-jays-kirk-says-hes-good-to-go-for-game-7-after-hit-by-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253931\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Kirk says he&#8217;s good to go for Game 7 after hit-by-pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Series headed to a winner-take-all Game 7, the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> dodged a bullet on one of their top players.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/alejandro-kirk\/717333c5-59e0-41f4-a1d9-dd58ad2661ef\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"717333c5-59e0-41f4-a1d9-dd58ad2661ef\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alejandro Kirk<\/a> had his left hand hit by a pitch to start the bottom of the ninth inning in Friday&#8217;s Game 6 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Myles Straw came in to pinch run for Kirk with the Blue Jays trailing 3-1. <\/p>\n<p>After the team&#8217;s loss, Kirk went to get X-Rays, but said the imaging showed no fracture and he&#8217;ll be ready to play in Saturday&#8217;s Game 7 (Sportsnet, 8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old catcher went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts in Game 6. <\/p>\n<p>Kirk has provided some big pop in the lineup throughout the Blue Jays&#8217; post-season run, with five home runs and 13 RBIs. <\/p>\n<p>If Kirk can&#8217;t go in Game 7, backup catcher Tyler Heineman would be in line to take his spot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the World Series headed to a winner-take-all Game 7, the Toronto Blue Jays dodged a bullet on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-253931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253931","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=253931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}