{"id":923760,"date":"2026-10-07T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923760\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:40:14","slug":"acunas-status-uncertain-for-braves-game-4-vs-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923760\/","title":{"rendered":"Acuna&#8217;s status uncertain for Braves&#8217; Game 4 vs. Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former MVP was a late scratch in right field and was moved to designated hitter instead ahead of Game 3. Acu\u00f1a went 0-for-3 with one walk in Atlanta&#8217;s 3-1 loss. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old played 107 games this season and went on the injured list twice with left hamstring strains. <\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a still finished with 20 home runs, 21 stolen bases and a .796 OPS while boasting one of the best outfield arms in baseball. <\/p>\n<p>After achieving the first-ever 40-home-run, 70-stolen-base season in 2023 and winning the National League MVP, Acu\u00f1a missed most of the next two seasons with a torn left ACL and has failed to recapture the same level of performance since. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former MVP was a late scratch in right field and was moved to designated hitter instead ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-923760","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\/923760","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=923760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}