{"id":26950,"date":"2025-08-21T14:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tucker-returns-to-cubs-lineup-after-slump-absence\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:18:26","slug":"tucker-returns-to-cubs-lineup-after-slump-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/tucker-returns-to-cubs-lineup-after-slump-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Returns to Cubs&#8217; Lineup After Slump Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kyle Tucker Returns to Action with the Cubs<\/h2>\n\nThe prominent batter Kyle Tucker returned to the Chicago Cubs&#8217; lineup this Thursday, after missing three games. The right fielder occupied the second spot in the batting order in the matchup against the Milwaukee Brewers.\n\nThe Cubs&#8217; goal was to secure their fourth consecutive victory over the National League Central Division leaders, the Brewers, in the final game of a five-game series at Wrigley Field.\n\nTucker&#8217;s absence was due to his performance, as he hadn&#8217;t played since Monday, the day he went 0-4 in Chicago&#8217;s 7-0 loss to the Brewers. In August, the player is batting .148 (8 for 54) in 15 games, with only two extra-base hits in his last 24 games.\n\nBefore this streak, the 28-year-old player was batting .290 with 17 home runs and 52 RBIs in his first 85 games and was selected for the All-Star Game for the fourth time.\n\nAfter Wednesday&#8217;s 4-3 victory over the Brewers, Cubs manager Craig Counsell confirmed that Tucker had been playing with a small fracture in his right hand, suffered during a slide against Cincinnati on June 1. Counsell suggested that this might have influenced Tucker&#8217;s poor performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There are no medical restrictions for Tucker. He was simply given time off this week to help him get through this rough patch.<\/p><cite>Craig Counsell<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nOn Thursday, Tucker downplayed the injury as the cause of his poor performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t know how much my preparation and my swing and everything really affected it. It didn&#8217;t feel good at the time and I managed it, and obviously you make adjustments to go out and play.<\/p><cite>Kyle Tucker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTucker, acquired in a trade with Houston in December, will be eligible for free agency after this season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Tucker Returns to Action with the Cubs The prominent batter Kyle Tucker returned to the Chicago Cubs&#8217; lineup this Thursday, after missing three games. The right fielder occupied the second spot in the batting order in the matchup against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Cubs&#8217; goal was to secure their fourth consecutive victory over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[85,290,7482,1020],"class_list":{"0":"post-26950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-chicago-cubs","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-kyle-tucker","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950","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=26950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}