{"id":450093,"date":"2026-09-28T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450093\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:50:09","slug":"willson-contreras-back-in-red-sox-lineup-after-missing-8-games-due-to-hand-injury-troy-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450093\/","title":{"rendered":"Willson Contreras back in Red Sox lineup after missing 8 games due to hand injury \u2013 Troy Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras returned to the Boston Red Sox lineup for Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale after missing eight games because of an injured right hand.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, who entered leading the Red Sox with with 27 homers and 81 RBIs, batted third as the designated hitter against the Chicago Cubs in a game moved from Fenway Park to Tropicana Field because of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/red-sox-willson-contreras-60ff21820d7d903da4922c7a7de01100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit on his right hand by a Jakob Junis pitch on Sept. 17<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He entered Sunday second in the AL with a .387 on-base percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras is Boston\u2019s regular first baseman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Willson Contreras returned to the Boston Red Sox lineup for Sunday\u2019s regular-season finale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,154],"class_list":["post-450093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}