{"id":792683,"date":"2026-07-30T04:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792683\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T04:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T04:47:12","slug":"athletics-nick-kurtz-exits-with-bruised-forearm-after-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792683\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Nick Kurtz exits with bruised forearm after HBP"},"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>Thursday, July 30, 2026 3:48AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212;<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics-athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a>first baseman <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4966637\/nick-kurtz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nick Kurtz<\/a> left Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> with a bruised forearm after being hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was batting in the first inning with a 3-2 count when he was struck on the left forearm by a 95 mph sinker thrown by Red Sox starter <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40975\/patrick-sandoval\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patrick Sandoval<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Kurtz had just come off the injured list Saturday after being out with a right thumb sprain.<\/p>\n<p>He is batting .260, leads the A&#8217;s with 21 home runs and is third in the majors with 77 walks.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 30, 2026 3:48AM WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212;Athleticsfirst baseman Nick Kurtz left Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[336823,9202,352,97754,363,3,99],"class_list":["post-792683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-336823","tag-athletics-athletics","tag-espn","tag-kurtz-nick","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792683","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=792683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}