{"id":214450,"date":"2026-06-09T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214450\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:46:11","slug":"lehigh-valley-ironpigs-show-support-for-injured-12-year-old-baseball-player-xavier-taylor-milb-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214450\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley IronPigs show support for injured 12-year-old baseball player Xavier Taylor | MiLB Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are sharing their support for Xavier Taylor, a 12-year-old baseball player from South Jersey that was injured during a warmup nearly two weeks ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, a player for the Maple Shade Youth Baseball Association, was critically injured on Tuesday, May 26, after being struck in the neck by a ball, according to WPVI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The IronPigs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/3053580195108915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted a video on Facebook<\/a> Monday from the team to share their thoughts with Xavier and the Taylor family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Xavier remains hospitalized on a ventilator, and his father says there are signs of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Xavier is no longer on blood pressure medication, his vital signs are stable, and he is receiving nutritional care.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8212; The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are sharing their support for Xavier Taylor, a 12-year-old baseball player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,89056],"class_list":["post-214450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-lv-iron-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}