{"id":750202,"date":"2026-06-20T20:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:56:09","slug":"liam-hicks-removed-from-miami-marlins-lineup-vs-san-francisco-giants-because-of-back-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750202\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Hicks removed from Miami Marlins&#8217; lineup vs. San Francisco Giants because of back tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/miami-marlins\/252\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> slugger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/liam-hicks\/1318265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/liam-hicks\/1318265\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Hicks<\/a> was scratched for their game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/san-francisco-giants\/250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/san-francisco-giants\/250\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> on Saturday because of back tightness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hicks originally was scheduled to bat leadoff as the designated hitter. Instead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/esteury-ruiz\/917030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/esteury-ruiz\/917030\" target=\"_blank\">Esteury Ruiz<\/a> replaced Hicks in the lineup, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/owen-caissie\/1217869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/owen-caissie\/1217869\" target=\"_blank\">Owen Caissie<\/a> was moved from right field to DH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Hicks is having a breakout offensive season in his second year with Miami. He began Saturday with a team-leading 13 homers and 53 RBIs. Hicks has alternated among catcher, first base and designated hitter in 73 games.<\/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":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Miami Marlins slugger Liam Hicks was scratched for their game against the San Francisco Giants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-750202","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\/750202","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=750202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}