{"id":59290,"date":"2025-08-05T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:11:07","slug":"reds-starter-nick-lodolo-exits-against-cubs-due-to-blister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/59290\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds starter Nick Lodolo exits against Cubs due to blister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati<\/a> left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42433\/nick-lodolo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Lodolo<\/a> abruptly left Monday night&#8217;s 3-2 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> with two outs in the bottom of the second inning with a blister on his left index finger.<\/p>\n<p>Lodolo retired the first five Cubs hitters. Then after throwing a strike on his first pitch to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/29607\/justin-turner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Turner<\/a>, Lodolo gestured toward his left hand.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Terry Francona jogged to the mound with a trainer for a brief discussion. Lodolo walked to the dugout and was replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33372\/nick-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Martinez<\/a> with the Reds ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez got Turner to fly to right for the final out of the second.<\/p>\n<p>Lodolo entered at 8-6 with a 3.09 ERA. He had won three straight decisions with a 1.32 ERA in his previous four starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Cincinnati left-hander Nick Lodolo abruptly left Monday night&#8217;s 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs with two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-59290","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\/59290","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=59290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}