{"id":835261,"date":"2026-07-30T05:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:44:09","slug":"athletics-kurtz-exits-vs-red-sox-with-bruised-left-forearm-after-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835261\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Kurtz exits vs. Red Sox with bruised left forearm after HBP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/oakland-athletics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"oakland-athletics\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a> first baseman Nick Kurtz will undergo an MRI test after leaving Wednesday night\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/boston-red-sox\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"boston-red-sox\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> with a bruised forearm after being hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old All-Star had X-rays taken after being removed from the game but manager Mark Kotsay said the results were inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have an MRI in the morning so we\u2019ll have a vatter idea of exactly what is going on,\u201d Kotsay told reporters after the A\u2019s 4-2 loss to the Red Sox. \u201cThe X-rays were kind of unclear, so we\u2019re hoping for the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz was batting in the first inning with a 3-2 count when\u00a0he was struck on the left forearm by a 95 mph sinker\u00a0thrown by Red Sox starter Patrick Sandoval.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz had just come off the injured list on Saturday after being out with a right thumb sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz is batting .260, leads the A\u2019s with 21 home runs and is third in the majors with 77 walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Athletics first baseman Nick Kurtz will undergo an MRI test after leaving Wednesday night\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-835261","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\/835261","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=835261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}