Mar 11, 2026, 06:14 PM ET<\/p>\n
SARASOTA, Fla. — Baltimore Orioles<\/a> first baseman Ryan Mountcastle<\/a> left Wednesday’s Grapefruit League game against the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> after being hit on the right hand by a pitch.<\/p>\n Orioles manager Craig Albernaz told reporters that Mountcastle wanted to stay in the game, but his hand was sore.<\/p>\n “He got hit with a baseball, so it feels like he got hit with a baseball,” Albernaz said. “He’s getting checked out right now, so we’ll have more information.”<\/p>\n Mountcastle appeared in 89 games for Baltimore last season, batting .250 with seven homers, 18 doubles and 35 RBIs. He missed two months during the middle of the season with a hamstring strain. This year, he is competing for a regular role after the Orioles signed <\/a>Pete Alonso<\/a> to a $155 million, five-year contract in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 11, 2026, 06:14 PM ET SARASOTA, Fla. — Baltimore Orioles first baseman Ryan Mountcastle left Wednesday’s Grapefruit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-518746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518746","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=518746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}