{"id":226314,"date":"2026-06-24T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226314\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:11:09","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-scratch-kyle-schwarber-with-low-back-tightness-before-nationals-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226314\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies scratch Kyle Schwarber with low back tightness before Nationals game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major league home runs leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/phillies-vs-mets-kyle-schwarber-bryce-harper\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a> was scratched with lower back tightness before the Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; game against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that the team&#8217;s designated hitter would be out came about five minutes before the game began. Edmundo Sosa replaced him in the Phillies&#8217; lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber leads the majors this season with 29 home runs and is coming off a weekend in which he hit three against the Mets on Saturday and another one on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 4-1 loss to the Nationals on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major league home runs leader Kyle Schwarber was scratched with lower back tightness before the Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4607,11199,4606,69,71,70,1425,726,29829],"class_list":["post-226314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-new-york-mets","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-sports","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226314","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=226314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}