{"id":557497,"date":"2026-04-01T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:08:09","slug":"guardians-chase-delauter-hurt-after-fouling-pitch-off-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/557497\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians&#8217; Chase DeLauter hurt after fouling pitch off foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 31, 2026, 10:58 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> right fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4619649\/chase-delauter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase DeLauter<\/a> left the game in the first inning after fouling a pitch from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39832\/shohei-ohtani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> off his back foot Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>After a trainer came out to check on DeLauter, the rookie took a few practice swings and returned to the batter&#8217;s box. He tried to run out a grounder to third, but was thrown out and then hobbled to the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardians later announced DeLauter suffered a left foot contusion and X-rays are negative.<\/p>\n<p>DeLauter was replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719337\/cj-kayfus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ Kayfus<\/a> in the bottom of the first.<\/p>\n<p>DeLauter was the American League rookie of the week after hitting four home runs in his first three games. He&#8217;s just the second player to accomplish the feat, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32150\/trevor-story\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Story<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 31, 2026, 10:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES &#8212; Cleveland Guardians right fielder Chase DeLauter left the game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-557497","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\/557497","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=557497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}