{"id":83142,"date":"2025-08-20T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83142\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:38:18","slug":"nationals-recall-first-baseman-andres-chaparro-from-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/83142\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals recall first baseman Andr\u00e9s Chaparro from minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 19, 2025, 05:53 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nationals<\/a> recalled slugging first baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/42949\/andres-chaparro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andr\u00e9s Chaparro<\/a> from Triple-A Rochester on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Chaparro is hitting .274 with 15 homers in 53 minor league games this season. Nationals interim manager Miguel Cairo said Chaparro would play primarily against left-handers, and he was in the lineup Tuesday night against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> lefty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40921\/david-peterson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Peterson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second stint in the majors this season for Chaparro, who debuted last year and is a .205 batter with four homers in 37 major league games.<\/p>\n<p>Infielder Jos\u00e9 Tena was optioned to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>Last-place Washington released veteran first baseman Nathaniel Lowe last week. The Nationals also have veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32517\/josh-bell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Bell<\/a> at the position.<\/p>\n<p>Also Tuesday, Nationals right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41165\/josiah-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josiah Gray<\/a> threw live batting practice as he works his way back from Tommy John surgery that he had in July of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Travis Sykora, the Nationals&#8217; top pitching prospect, was scheduled to have Tommy John surgery Wednesday to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament that was diagnosed last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 19, 2025, 05:53 PM ET WASHINGTON &#8212; The Nationals recalled slugging first baseman Andr\u00e9s Chaparro from Triple-A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-83142","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\/83142","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=83142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}