{"id":574539,"date":"2026-04-09T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574539\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:23:10","slug":"as-of-brent-rooker-exits-vs-yankees-with-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574539\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s OF Brent Rooker exits vs. Yankees with back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a> right fielder <a data-player-guid=\"0fc2e345-a28a-9c20-023a-e80747e8d0d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40926\/brent-rooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Rooker<\/a> exited Thursday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yankees<\/a> with back pain <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBCSAthletics\/status\/2042298345990074548?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">after a swing in the first inning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With <a data-player-guid=\"3c91bc94-f039-3293-8b62-e6371ebaea0b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4966637\/nick-kurtz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kurtz<\/a> on first base, Rooker fouled off an 84.2 mph changeup from <a data-player-guid=\"5402c89c-491c-069e-9642-55ee5246433a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41178\/ryan-weathers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Weathers<\/a>, took a step toward home plate and winced after feeling discomfort in his &#8220;right flank,&#8221; the A&#8217;s announced.<\/p>\n<p>He was checked out by a trainer and manager Mark Kotsay and then replaced by <a data-player-guid=\"507645e1-1fa0-3e50-b541-3d37c9f4f43a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917919\/lawrence-butler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Butler<\/a>. Butler took a called third strike on the next pitch and the at-bat was charged to Rooker.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the ninth inning off <a data-player-guid=\"b8160712-4442-6280-b6ef-67bdf15250c7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/38303\/david-bednar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bednar<\/a> to give the A&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401814856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3-2 win<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker is hitting .146 this season with two homers; seven of his eight RBIs came in the previous three games before Thursday. Last season, Rooker hit .262 with 30 homers and 89 RBIs when he appeared in every game.<\/p>\n<p>He has played in 214 straight games, the fourth-longest streak in A&#8217;s history since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Athletics right fielder Brent Rooker exited Thursday&#8217;s game against the Yankees with back pain after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-574539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574539","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=574539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}