{"id":763686,"date":"2026-06-27T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:32:12","slug":"red-sox-place-marcelo-mayer-on-il-with-forearm-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/763686\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox place Marcelo Mayer on IL with forearm injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To take his place, the club recalled infielder Tsung-Che Cheng from triple-A Worcester before their game against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Interim manager Chad Tracy said the 23-year-old Mayer has been dealing with soreness for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recommendation of the doctors was if this is something that if you can get off and rest, that would be the best thing to do right now,\u201d Tracy said.<\/p>\n<p>The team said it was a \u201cbone stress reaction to the left ulna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayer, the fourth overall pick in the 2021 MLB draft, has struggled this season, batting just .220 with three homers and 22 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng is making his Red Sox debut, starting at shortstop and batting ninth. He was claimed off waivers from Washington in Feb. after playing with Pittsburgh last season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the third infielder this season that started the year with the club to go on the IL.<\/p>\n<p>Shortstop Trevor Story needed sports hernia surgery in May and Isiah Kiner-Falefa also went the IL with a forearm injury last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To take his place, the club recalled infielder Tsung-Che Cheng from triple-A Worcester before their game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-763686","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\/763686","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=763686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}