{"id":294735,"date":"2025-11-16T07:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:58:11","slug":"kike-hernandez-has-elbow-surgery-and-will-miss-world-baseball-classic-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294735\/","title":{"rendered":"Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez has elbow surgery and will miss World Baseball Classic | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez said Saturday he underwent surgery for a left elbow injury that bothered him for much of this past season and he will miss next year&#8217;s World Baseball Classic for his native Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>The free agent infielder and outfielder did not provide a timetable for his return.<\/p>\n<p>Hern\u00e1ndez wrote on Instagram that he\u2019d been playing hurt for about a month with the Los Angeles Dodgers when he went on the injured list with left elbow inflammation July 7. He returned on Aug. 26 but was limited to 93 games.<\/p>\n<p>He had 16 postseason hits in helping the Dodgers win their second consecutive World Series title and his third with the club. He hit .203 with 10 homers and 35 RBIs during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez said Saturday he underwent surgery for a left elbow injury that bothered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,154022,363,2008,77465,99,24324,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-294735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers-kike-hernandez","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-baseball","12":"tag-mlb-world-series","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-sports-transactions","15":"tag-surgery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}