{"id":841641,"date":"2026-08-02T03:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:33:16","slug":"boston-red-sox-all-star-willson-contreras-held-out-vs-los-angeles-dodgers-while-being-tested-for-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841641\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox All-Star Willson Contreras held out vs. Los Angeles Dodgers while being tested for concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> are holding out All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/willson-contreras\/508176\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/willson-contreras\/508176\" target=\"_blank\">Willson Contreras<\/a> in Saturday night\u2019s game at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> as he undergoes concussion testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Contreras was hit by a pitch on the side of the helmet in the third inning of the Red Sox\u2019s 9-4 victory over the Dodgers on Friday night. He left the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Contreras was struck by a 95-mph fastball from reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/will-klein-1006096\/1217824\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/will-klein-1006096\/1217824\" target=\"_blank\">Will Klein<\/a>. The first baseman was checked on by the medical staff before taking first base. He had already hit the dirt after Klein\u2019s first pitch of the at-bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following Friday night\u2019s game, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said preliminary tests on Contreras \u201chave been fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Contreras is hitting .288 with 23 home runs and 67 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Red Sox are starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nick-sogard\/1169919\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/nick-sogard\/1169919\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Sogard<\/a> at first base with Contreras out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The Boston Red Sox are holding out All-Star Willson Contreras in Saturday night\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-841641","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\/841641","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=841641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}