{"id":756567,"date":"2026-06-23T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756567\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T20:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T20:32:22","slug":"reds-elly-de-la-cruz-activated-after-spending-3-weeks-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756567\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz activated after spending 3 weeks on injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/elly-de-la-cruz\/457e0d34-698f-4ee3-ba0e-4bf703200d8f\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"457e0d34-698f-4ee3-ba0e-4bf703200d8f\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> was back in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/cincinnati-reds\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"cincinnati-reds\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>&#8216; lineup\u00a0for Tuesday night&#8217;s game against Milwaukee after spending just over three weeks on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds announced they activated the two-time all-star shortstop, who\u00a0strained his right hamstring\u00a0on May 31, and optioned outfielder Will Benson to Triple-A Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz completed a\u00a0three-game rehab assignment\u00a0at Louisville over the weekend. He homered and played five innings at shortstop on Friday, was 0-for-3 as the designated hitter on Saturday and 0-for-3 with two strikeouts and an error on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz was batting .280 with an .855 OPS and 12 home runs in 58 games before he went on the IL for the first time in his major league career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Elly De La Cruz was back in the\u00a0Cincinnati Reds&#8216; lineup\u00a0for Tuesday night&#8217;s game against Milwaukee after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-756567","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\/756567","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=756567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}