{"id":657640,"date":"2026-05-22T02:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:41:13","slug":"ronald-acuna-jr-exits-marlins-game-as-precaution-due-to-left-thumb-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657640\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. exits Marlins game as precaution due to left thumb pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was removed in the sixth inning of Thursday&#8217;s game against the Miami Marlins as a precaution because of pain in his left thumb, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a appeared to have his thumb examined during the fifth before exiting with the Braves up 6-2. Eli White replaced him at right field.<\/p>\n<p>It was Acu\u00f1a&#8217;s third game back after a being sidelined with a left hamstring strain since May 2. <\/p>\n<p>He had two hits on Thursday, including an RBI single that put the Braves ahead 5-2 in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Acu\u00f1a left in the second inning against the Rockies on May 2 with hamstring tightness before an MRI revealed the strain. He was attempting to run out a grounder before he pulled up about halfway down the line and grabbed at his hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time All-Star and 2023 NL MVP is batting .252 with two homers and a team-high seven steals. He had played in the first 34 games this year after a torn ACL he suffered in May 2024 limited him to a combined 144 games over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was removed in the sixth inning of Thursday&#8217;s game against the Miami Marlins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,13090,2324,363,99],"class_list":["post-657640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657640","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=657640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}