{"id":767433,"date":"2026-06-28T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:29:10","slug":"rays-dh-yandy-diaz-injures-shoulder-vs-diamondbacks-considered-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767433\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays DH Yandy Diaz injures shoulder vs. Diamondbacks, considered day to day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"tampa-bay-rays\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> designated hitter and American League-leading hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/yandy-diaz\/c91b7458-14bf-4a62-b147-c47ad2f19396\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"c91b7458-14bf-4a62-b147-c47ad2f19396\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yandy D\u00edaz<\/a> was removed from Sunday\u2019s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks because of a strained shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz took a heavy swing against Arizona\u2019s Merrill Kelly in the bottom of the fifth inning. He was looked at by team trainers after a swing-and-a-miss, but stayed in the game and eventually grounded out to short to lead off the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Palacios pinch hit for D\u00edaz to start the seventh. Tampa Bay was leading 5-0 at the time of his departure.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced that D\u00edaz left the game because of a left shoulder strain and was considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz, who has reached base in 26 consecutive home games, leads the AL with a .336 batting average and is second on Tampa Bay with 53 RBIs. His sacrifice fly in the second inning moved him into a tie with Aubrey Huff for the fifth-most RBIs in franchise history with 449.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter and American League-leading hitter Yandy D\u00edaz was removed from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-767433","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\/767433","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=767433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}