{"id":754659,"date":"2026-06-22T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:58:09","slug":"cincinnati-reds-shortstop-elly-de-la-cruz-expected-to-return-tuesday-from-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754659\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz expected to return Tuesday from IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Reds shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/elly-de-la-cruz\/1299668\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/elly-de-la-cruz\/1299668\" target=\"_blank\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> is expected to be reinstated from the injured list Tuesday after missing 19 games with a strained right hamstring, manager Terry Francona said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">De La Cruz \u2014 who has been sidelined since June 1 \u2014 took batting practice prior to Monday night\u2019s series opener against the first-place Brewers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He made three rehab starts for Triple-A Louisville going 2 for 8 with a home run and two RBIs. After homering in his first rehab start on Friday, De La Cruz texted Francona, \u201cBe there tomorrow\u201d but the Reds didn\u2019t want to rush things. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">De La Cruz left the May 31 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> with right hamstring tightness after he had a base hit in the fifth inning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had a streak of appearing in 276 consecutive games snapped, the sixth-longest streak for a Reds player in the expansion era (since 1961). His streak began on July 30, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before going on the injured list, De La Cruz was batting .280 with 12 home runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cincinnati (37-39) took two of three from the Yankees in New York over the weekend but remain in last place in the NL Central. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jeff Wallner, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz is expected to be reinstated from the injured list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-754659","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\/754659","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=754659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}