{"id":14143,"date":"2025-07-02T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cardinals-contreras-and-arenado-out-against-pirates-due-to-injuries\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:18:13","slug":"cardinals-contreras-and-arenado-out-against-pirates-due-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/cardinals-contreras-and-arenado-out-against-pirates-due-to-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals: Contreras and Arenado out against Pirates due to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Contreras and Arenado out of the Cardinals&#8217; lineup against the Pirates<\/h2>\n<p>Catcher Willson Contreras and third baseman Nolan Arenado will not be in the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; lineup for Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras suffered a contusion on his left hand during Tuesday&#8217;s 1-0 loss to the Pirates, after being hit by a pitch from Paul Skenes. Arenado will miss a second consecutive game due to an injury to the middle finger of his right hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals manager, Oliver Marmol, said on Wednesday that he expects Contreras and Arenado to be able to play on Friday, when St. Louis begins a three-game series against the Cubs, leaders of the National League Central, in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals began Wednesday in third place in the division, four games behind the Cubs. St. Louis has a day off on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, three-time All-Star, is batting .248 with 11 home runs in 82 games. Arenado, eight-time All-Star, has a batting average of .247 and 10 home runs in 80 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contreras and Arenado out of the Cardinals&#8217; lineup against the Pirates Catcher Willson Contreras and third baseman Nolan Arenado will not be in the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; lineup for Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Contreras suffered a contusion on his left hand during Tuesday&#8217;s 1-0 loss to the Pirates, after being hit by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[293,2842,1054,2843],"class_list":{"0":"post-14143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cardinals","9":"tag-nolan-arenado","10":"tag-pirates","11":"tag-willson-contreras"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143","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=14143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}