{"id":731635,"date":"2026-06-28T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731635\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:44:23","slug":"rays-dh-yandy-diaz-strains-his-shoulder-is-considered-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/731635\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays DH Yandy Diaz strains his shoulder, is considered day to day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter and American League-leading hitter Yandy D\u00edaz was removed from Sunday\u2019s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks because of a strained shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz took a heavy swing against Arizona\u2019s Merrill Kelly in the bottom of the fifth inning. He was looked at by team trainers after a swing-and-a-miss but stayed in the game and eventually grounded out to short to lead off the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Richie Palacios pinch hit for D\u00edaz to start the seventh. Tampa Bay was leading 5-0 at the time of his departure and finished off a three-game sweep with a <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/diamondbacks-rays-score-caminero-be36cb18496f0be3af82a714519ad892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5-1 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced that D\u00edaz left the game because of a left shoulder strain and was considered day to day.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz, who has reached base in 26 consecutive home games, leads the AL with a .336 batting average and is second on Tampa Bay with 53 RBIs. His sacrifice fly in the second inning moved him into a tie with Aubrey Huff for the fifth-most RBIs in franchise history with 449.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter and American League-leading hitter Yandy D\u00edaz was removed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1017,2317,315045,3830,1558,2822,2808,38794,363,2008,197714,99,974],"class_list":["post-731635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-aubrey-huff","tag-az-state-wire","tag-baseball","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-richie-palacios","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731635","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=731635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}