{"id":644525,"date":"2026-05-03T05:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644525\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:42:11","slug":"braves-star-ronald-acuna-jr-exits-early-with-left-hamstring-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644525\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Star Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. Exits Early with Left Hamstring Tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. left Saturday night&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies in the second inning with left hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">With his team holding a 2-0 lead, Acu\u00f1a was attempting to run out a ground ball before he pulled up about halfway down the base path and grabbed at his left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">He was examined by team medical personnel before walking gingerly off the field and back to the Atlanta dugout. There was no immediate update on his condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">He was replaced by Eli White in right field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Acu\u00f1a had a leadoff single and scored the Braves\u2019 first run on a two-run homer from Drake Baldwin to left field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">After a torn ACL he suffered in May 2024 limited him to a combined 144 games over the past two seasons, the 28-year-old Acu\u00f1a has played in all of Atlanta\u2019s 34 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">The five-time All-Star and 2023 National League MVP is batting .252 this season with two home runs, nine RBIs, 17 runs and a team-high seven stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-ace7f8b6=\"\">Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. left Saturday night&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies in the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3960,49,48,8303,25257,501,462,8292,82],"class_list":["post-644525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-drake-baldwin","tag-eli-white","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-ronald-acuna-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644525","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=644525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}