{"id":9930,"date":"2025-07-20T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9930\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:00:09","slug":"astros-rodgers-suffers-concussion-during-rehab-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9930\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Rodgers suffers concussion during rehab assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 19, 2025, 09:44 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35073\/brendan-rodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Rodgers<\/a> sustained a concussion and a broken nose when he collided with a teammate during a minor league rehab assignment, the team said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Rodgers was playing for Triple-A Sugar Land Friday night in the first game of his rehab assignment when the collision occurred in the third inning. He had been sidelined since June 15 with a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros said Rodgers would be evaluated further over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers is batting .191 with two homers and 11 RBIs in 43 games for Houston this season. The No. 3 overall pick in the 2015 amateur draft by Colorado, he played for the Rockies from 2019-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 19, 2025, 09:44 PM ET SEATTLE &#8212; Houston Astros second baseman Brendan Rodgers sustained a concussion and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-9930","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\/9930","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=9930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}