{"id":13843,"date":"2025-07-01T18:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dejong-returns-nationals-activate-infielder-after-facial-injury-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:42:27","slug":"dejong-returns-nationals-activate-infielder-after-facial-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/dejong-returns-nationals-activate-infielder-after-facial-injury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DeJong Returns: Nationals Activate Infielder After Facial Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Nationals activated infielder Paul DeJong from the 10-day injured list on Tuesday, and optioned infielder Andres Chaparro to Triple-A Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>DeJong suffered a broken nose, orbit, and orbital floor after being hit in the face by a 92.7 mph pitch from Pittsburgh&#8217;s Mitch Keller on April 15. The 31-year-old player underwent surgery six days later.<\/p>\n<p>In 12 rehabilitation games with Double-A Harrisburg, DeJong batted .275, connecting 11 hits in 40 at-bats, including a double, a home run, six RBIs, and scored four runs.<\/p>\n<p>Before his injury, DeJong, who signed as a free agent in the offseason, batted .204 with four doubles, two RBIs, two stolen bases, and three runs scored in 16 games with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Chaparro, 26 years old, batted .091 in four games for the Nationals this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals&#8217; scheduled game against Detroit on Tuesday was suspended due to rain and will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 The Nationals activated infielder Paul DeJong from the 10-day injured list on Tuesday, and optioned infielder Andres Chaparro to Triple-A Rochester. DeJong suffered a broken nose, orbit, and orbital floor after being hit in the face by a 92.7 mph pitch from Pittsburgh&#8217;s Mitch Keller on April 15. The 31-year-old player underwent surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[290,344,576,577],"class_list":{"0":"post-13843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-injury","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nationals","11":"tag-paul-dejong"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}