{"id":23473,"date":"2025-08-09T18:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/cardinals-all-star-donovan-out-with-groin-discomfort\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:36:22","slug":"cardinals-all-star-donovan-out-with-groin-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/cardinals-all-star-donovan-out-with-groin-discomfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; All-Star Donovan out with groin discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Brendan Donovan, Out of Action Due to Physical Discomfort<\/h2>\n<p>ST. LOUIS &#8211; Star second baseman Brendan Donovan was scratched from the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; lineup on Saturday night due to a left groin strain.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan, who was originally scheduled to bat first against the Chicago Cubs, was scratched as a precaution, according to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Selected as an All-Star for the first time this season, Donovan leads the Cardinals with 115 hits and a .278 batting average. However, his performance has declined in the 18 games following the All-Star break, with a .188 average and three extra-base hits. In his last 11 games, he has only connected for five hits, all singles.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Saggese took Donovan&#8217;s place at second base, and the Cardinals reorganized their lineup, moving center fielder Lars Nootbaar to the leadoff spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Donovan, Out of Action Due to Physical Discomfort ST. LOUIS &#8211; Star second baseman Brendan Donovan was scratched from the St. Louis Cardinals&#8217; lineup on Saturday night due to a left groin strain. Donovan, who was originally scheduled to bat first against the Chicago Cubs, was scratched as a precaution, according to the team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3880,293,312,7069],"class_list":{"0":"post-23473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-brendan-donovan","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-cubs","11":"tag-groin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473","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=23473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}