{"id":89489,"date":"2025-08-22T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89489\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:02:10","slug":"braves-austin-riley-undergoes-season-ending-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89489\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Austin Riley undergoes season-ending surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 21, 2025, 05:31 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34982\/austin-riley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Riley<\/a> will miss the remainder of the season after having core injury surgery on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves announced the surgery was performed by Dr. William Meyers in Philadelphia. Riley, who was placed on the 10-day injured list for the second time in two months on Aug. 4 with a strained lower abdominal muscle, is expected to return in time for spring training next year.<\/p>\n<p>Riley first landed on the IL on July 12 with a strained abdomen. He returned on July 25 and finished the season hitting .260 with 16 homers and 54 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves also claimed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39875\/cal-quantrill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Quantrill<\/a> off waivers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> and optioned right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36080\/dane-dunning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dane Dunning<\/a> to Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the team added outfielder Jake Fraley to its roster after optioning RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41367\/connor-seabold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Seabold<\/a> to Gwinnett. Fraley was designated for assignment by Cincinnati on Sunday before being claimed by the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Left-hander Dylan Dodd was recalled from Gwinnett, and infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40466\/luke-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Williams<\/a> was placed on the 10-day injured list with a strained left oblique muscle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 21, 2025, 05:31 PM ET ATLANTA &#8212; Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley will miss the remainder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-89489","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\/89489","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=89489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}