{"id":657797,"date":"2026-05-22T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:46:09","slug":"ronald-acuna-jr-leaves-game-with-thumb-issue-is-day-to-day-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/657797\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Acu\u00f1a, Jr. leaves game with thumb issue; is day-to-day (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a, Jr. was replaced in the bottom of the sixth inning of tonight\u2019s game against the Miami Marlins by Eli White after dealing with an apparent thumb issue one inning prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When getting ready to take the field in the bottom of the fifth, Acu\u00f1a, Jr. lingered near the dugout while his thumb was examined before jogging back to right field. Acu\u00f1a, Jr. had singled in two runs in the top of the inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The star outfielder has been snake-bitten by injuries throughout his career and hopefully this was purely a precautionary measure with the team leading the Marlins 6-2 at the time of his removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Update #1: The Braves official statement was removal due to \u201cpain in his left thumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Update #2: The Braves announced that X-Rays on his thumb were negative and he is day-to-day (but then again, aren\u2019t we all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a, Jr. was replaced in the bottom of the sixth inning of tonight\u2019s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[268979,99],"class_list":["post-657797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-atlanta-braves-injuries","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657797","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=657797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}