{"id":756977,"date":"2026-06-24T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756977\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:34:14","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-scratch-kyle-schwarber-with-low-back-tightness-before-washington-nationals-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756977\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies scratch Kyle Schwarber with low back tightness before Washington Nationals game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Major league home runs leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kyle-schwarber\/709545\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kyle-schwarber\/709545\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a> was scratched with lower back tightness before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>\u2019 game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/washington-nationals\/244\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The announcement that the team\u2019s designated hitter would be out came about five minutes before the game began. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/edmundo-sosa\/736859\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/edmundo-sosa\/736859\" target=\"_blank\">Edmundo Sosa<\/a> replaced him in the Phillies\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schwarber leads the majors this season with 29 home runs and is coming off a weekend in which he hit three against the Mets on Saturday and another one on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Schwarber went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 4-1 loss to the Nationals on Monday night.<\/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":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Major league home runs leader Kyle Schwarber was scratched with lower back tightness before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-756977","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\/756977","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=756977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}