{"id":359736,"date":"2026-06-13T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359736\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T22:22:13","slug":"san-diegos-bogaerts-hit-on-helmet-by-pitch-then-exits-game-an-inning-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359736\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego&#8217;s Bogaerts hit on helmet by pitch, then exits game an inning later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 San Diego infielder Xander Bogaerts was hit on the helmet by a pitch in the top of the fifth against Baltimore on Saturday and exited the game an inning later.<\/p>\n<p>Bogaerts was struck on the left side of the head by a 93.5-mph pitch by Orioles starter Trey Gibson. The ball hit his helmet, which went flying off his head, and Bogaerts stayed on the ground for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>After having the area around his left ear examined, he went to first, and Baltimore pulled Gibson from the game. Bogaerts eventually came around to score, giving San Diego a 6-2 lead, then took his spot at shortstop in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Before the bottom of the sixth, however, he was replaced in the field.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 San Diego infielder Xander Bogaerts was hit on the helmet by a pitch in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4614,2135,7,47689,27996,546,552,1334,5443,74,76,75,127,29836,14424,60758],"class_list":["post-359736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports","tag-uc-san-diego-tritons","tag-virginia","tag-xander-bogaerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}