{"id":867588,"date":"2026-08-22T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867588\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:34:09","slug":"yankees-slugger-giancarlo-stanton-strains-other-calf-return-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/867588\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton strains other calf, return unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out recovering from a calf strain since late April, the 36-year-old <a data-team=\"new-york-yankees\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/new-york-yankees\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Yankees<\/a> slugger strained his other calf while running, manager Aaron Boone <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/2091186624084292090\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not ruling anything out. He&#8217;ll obviously continue to work to try to get it right and hopefully be available but obviously, we&#8217;re at a point in the calendar where it gets challenging, but you also never know,&#8221; Boone said.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton has appeared in only 24 games this season, hitting .256\/.302\/.422 with three home runs and 14 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees entered Saturday sitting just three games back of the Tampa Bay Rays for top spot in the American League East. They hold the No. 1 AL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Out recovering from a calf strain since late April, the 36-year-old New York Yankees slugger strained his other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-867588","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\/867588","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=867588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}