{"id":577049,"date":"2026-04-02T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:46:11","slug":"st-louis-cardinals-star-masyn-winn-involved-in-car-crash-hours-after-his-game-winning-hit-against-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577049\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals star Masyn Winn involved in car crash \u2014 hours after his game-winning hit against Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals star Masyn Winn was involved in a car crash hours after he tallied his first game-winning hit Wednesday afternoon against the New York Mets. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old shortstop was driving along Interstate 64 near St. Louis at the time of the single-car crash, the Cardinals said in a statement, <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/sports\/st-louis-cardinals\/cardinals-masyn-winn-involved-in-car-crash-following-walkoff-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to Fox 2 Now.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful that he is OK, and thank the first responders in our community who helped Masyn tonight,\u201d the team said. <\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals players celebrate with Masyn Winn after the shortstop hit a walk-off single against the New York Mets on April 1, 2026. AP<\/p>\n<p>Wet pavement was ruled the cause of the crash, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>Winn was alone in the car at the time of the incident and was helped by both police officers and officials from the Cardinals\u2019 security and medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>He was transported to a hospital for evaluation, where he was found not to have suffered any serious injuries and was later released.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known if Winn would be available for the Cardinals\u2019 afternoon game in Detroit on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Post has reached out to the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Masyn Winn hits a walk-off single against the Mets in the bottom of the 11th inning at Busch Stadium on April 1, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals\u2019 Masyn Winn is mobbed by his teammates after his game winning hit.  Jeff Curry-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Winn struck a bloop single into short right field with two outs in the 11th to propel the Cardinals to a 2-1 win over the Mets, winning the series two games to three.<\/p>\n<p>The walk-off was the first of Winn\u2019s career after making his debut with St. Louis in August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, Winn had also recorded his first big league hit against the Mets, an infield single on Aug. 18, 2023, where then-Mets first baseman<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/18\/mets-pete-alonso-tosses-ball-from-masyn-winns-first-career-hit-into-stands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Pete Alonso tossed the ball <\/a>into the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, now with the Orioles, sent Winn a bottle of 1942 tequila and a signed bat as a peace offering after his on-field blunder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to send him something because I didn\u2019t want him to think about anything,\u201d Alonso said at the time. \u201cI just wanted to send him something because I didn\u2019t want him to think about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fan who caught the ball later returned it to the Cardinals and Winn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals star Masyn Winn was involved in a car crash hours after he tallied his first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,33882,22725,25657,462,82,14577,3982],"class_list":{"0":"post-577049","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-car-crashes","11":"tag-celebrity-car-crashes","12":"tag-missouri","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577049","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=577049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}