{"id":802752,"date":"2026-07-15T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:06:13","slug":"junior-caminero-injured-on-hit-by-pitch-during-mlb-all-star-game-latest-updates-on-rays-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/802752\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Caminero Injured on Hit by Pitch During MLB All-Star Game, Latest Updates on Rays Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero suffered an injury while competing in the 2026 MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The injury occurred when Caminero was hit by a pitch in the third inning of the game, as he exited the contest immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Caminero fortunately gave a positive update after coming out of the game:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The player is officially day-to-day after his X-rays were negative, per <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TBTimes_Rays\/status\/2077206121421410640?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Marc Topkin<\/a> of the Tampa Bay Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 23-year-old is in the midst of a strong 2026 season, as he earned his second consecutive All-Star nod.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/stats\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranks<\/a>\u00a0No. 4 among all MLB players with 28 home runs while also racking up 14 doubles, 53 walks and 59 RBI. Caminero owns a .279\/.372\/.555 slash line as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He&#8217;s been extremely productive as of late, recording 13 homers and compiling a 1.184 OPS over his past 20 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Health issues haven&#8217;t been a problem for Caminero throughout his budding career, as he&#8217;s appeared in each of Tampa Bay&#8217;s first 94 regular-season games this year. He also suited up in 154 contests during his 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Rays will hope that Caminero is able to recover quickly, as they&#8217;re expected to battle for postseason positioning throughout the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Tampa Bay currently sits atop the American League East standings with a 56-38 record, but it only leads the New York Yankees by three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero suffered an injury while competing in the 2026 MLB All-Star Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-802752","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\/802752","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=802752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}