{"id":748738,"date":"2026-06-20T04:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748738\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:20:12","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-c-will-smith-sidelined-longer-as-a-nagging-neck-injury-delays-his-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748738\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers C Will Smith sidelined longer as a nagging neck injury delays his return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/will-smith-191563\/873265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/will-smith-191563\/873265\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> is still dealing with a neck injury that has him on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The three-time All-Star was due to return Friday but manager Dave Roberts said Smith won\u2019t be activated this weekend and may not travel with the team on its road trip that begins Monday in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Roberts said Smith had a scan and was going to have an injection \u201cto kind of minimize the sensation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe feels OK, not great,\u201d the manager said. \u201cWe\u2019re just trying to make sure that we don\u2019t have a setback when he comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Smith has continued doing baseball activities, including a full workout Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith is still dealing with a neck injury that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-748738","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\/748738","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=748738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}