{"id":265676,"date":"2026-08-15T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265676\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:38:08","slug":"nick-gonzales-hit-by-pitch-removed-from-fridays-game-vs-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/265676\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Gonzales hit by pitch, removed from Friday\u2019s game vs Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirates third baseman Nick Gonzales was removed from Friday night\u2019s contest against the Boston Red Sox after taking a wild pitch to the helmet from Boston\u2019s Jovani Mor\u00e1n. He is currently being checked out by the team\u2019s medical staff for a facial contusion and is considered day-to-day, the Pirates announced via social media during the game.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a moment to collect himself, Gonzales left the game and was replaced by Jacob Gonzalez in the top of the order. Gonzales hadn\u2019t recorded a hit in the game on two at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales is batting .307 with a .761 OPS, and has racked up 6 homers and 53 RBI this season for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pirates third baseman Nick Gonzales was removed from Friday night\u2019s contest against the Boston Red Sox after taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31296,57211,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-265676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-nick-gonzales","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265676","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=265676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}