{"id":613310,"date":"2026-04-18T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:11:10","slug":"d-backs-gurriel-activated-less-than-8-months-after-acl-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613310\/","title":{"rendered":"D-backs&#8217; Gurriel activated less than 8 months after ACL tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> activated outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36040\/lourdes-gurriel-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lourdes Gurriel Jr<\/a>. from the injured list on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel suffered a torn ACL in his right knee Sept. 1 when he moved to avoid an outfield collision at Chase Field. He is making his return less than eight months later. He&#8217;s starting in left field and batting fourth in Saturday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t play in any Cactus League games this spring, but participated in drills and took regular batting practice. He played in two Double-A games for Amarillo earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mental side was the worst part,&#8221; Gurriel said through an interpreter before Saturday&#8217;s game. &#8220;There were days I thought I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to play any more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dedication, hard work and the staff that supported me, that was the main thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel batted .280 with 19 homers and 80 RBIs in 129 games last season. Acquired from Toronto before the 2023 season, the 32-year-old native Cuban has 129 homers and is a .274 batter in an eight-year MLB career.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on Arizona&#8217;s roster, first baseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41313\/luken-baker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luken Baker<\/a> was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; The Arizona Diamondbacks activated outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. from the injured list on Saturday. Gurriel suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-613310","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\/613310","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=613310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}