{"id":7306,"date":"2025-07-13T18:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7306\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:57:04","slug":"cardinals-announce-injury-news-after-loss-to-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7306\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Announce Injury News After Loss to Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardinals Announce Injury News After Loss to Braves<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At 50\u201346, the St. Louis Cardinals sit in third place in a highly competitive National League Central race.<\/p>\n

After a solid start to the year, the club has dropped seven of its last ten games, hampered largely by nagging injuries to key contributors such as third baseman Nolan Arenado and first baseman Willson Contreras.<\/p>\n

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Following Saturday\u2019s game against the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis announced that outfielder Lars Nootbaar was placed on the 10-day injured list with left rib pain after he left the game early, clearing a roster spot for catcher Ivan Herrera\u2019s return.<\/p>\n

Nootbaar also exited the series finale against the Washington Nationals on Thursday. After attempting to play through the discomfort, the 27-year-old admitted the pain persisted, prompting the Cardinals to shut him down before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n

An eighth-round pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, Nootbaar debuted with St. Louis in 2021 and has been a reliable run producer ever since, posting an OPS near .800 in each of his last three seasons.<\/p>\n

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This year, in 88 games, his bat has cooled considerably. He\u2019s batting .227 with a .712 OPS\u2014career lows for a player who once provided consistent production. When he eventually rejoins the lineup, Nootbaar will aim to recapture his prior form and, just as importantly, stay healthy down the stretch.<\/p>\n

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St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Lars Nootbaar (21) \u00a9 Daniel Kucin Jr&period;-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

With only one game remaining before the break, the Cardinals remain just 2.5 games back of the third NL wild-card spot.<\/p>\n

As St. Louis fights for a postseason spot, Nootbaar\u2019s return and steady production will be essential to keeping their playoff hopes alive.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 13, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardinals Announce Injury News After Loss to Braves originally appeared on Athlon Sports. At 50\u201346, the St. Louis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2111,7649,7644,363,7647,7646,99,7645,1231,2331,7648],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-mlb","tag-national-league-central","tag-nolan-arenado","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-washington-nationals","tag-willson-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","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=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}