{"id":714901,"date":"2026-06-20T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714901\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:46:09","slug":"dodgers-smith-not-ready-to-return-might-not-travel-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/714901\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Smith not ready to return, might not travel with team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, June 20, 2026 4:03AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES &#8212;<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dodgers<\/a> catcher <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31549\/will-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Will Smith<\/a> is still dealing with a neck injury that has him on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The three-time All-Star was due to return Friday, but manager Dave Roberts said Smith won&#8217;t be activated this weekend and might not travel with the team on its road trip that begins Monday in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Roberts said Smith had a scan and was going to have an injection &#8220;to kind of minimize the sensation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;He feels OK, not great,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to make sure that we don&#8217;t have a setback when he comes back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Smith has continued doing baseball activities, including a full workout Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, June 20, 2026 4:03AM LOS ANGELES &#8212;Dodgers catcher Will Smith is still dealing with a neck injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[308195,352,2323,363,3,220439,99],"class_list":["post-714901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-308195","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-smith-will","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714901","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=714901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}