{"id":32994,"date":"2025-09-09T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/garcia-de-astros-injured-after-tommy-john-return\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:21:33","slug":"garcia-de-astros-injured-after-tommy-john-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/garcia-de-astros-injured-after-tommy-john-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Garcia de Astros Injured After Tommy John Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Luis Garc\u00eda Leaves the Game with Injury<\/h2>\n\nIn an unexpected turn of events, Houston Astros right-handed pitcher Luis Garc\u00eda had to leave Tuesday&#8217;s game in Toronto due to an apparent injury.\n\nGarc\u00eda, who was making his second start after more than two years of inactivity following Tommy John surgery, was replaced by AJ Blubaugh in the second inning.\n\nThe pitcher threw 27 pitches, of which 14 were strikes.\n\nGarc\u00eda&#8217;s signal to the dugout came after throwing an 88 mph changeup to Ernie Clement with two outs in the second inning.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0910%2Fr1543330_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Astros pitcher Luis Garcia exits the game with an apparent injury in his second start after more than two years of recovery from Tommy John surgery.<\/em>\n\nGarc\u00eda had hit the previous batter, Addison Barger, in the foot with a curveball on the first pitch.\n\nIn the first inning, the pitcher retired the batters in order. The second batter, Nathan Lukes, was out when his line drive hit Garc\u00eda&#8217;s glove and bounced behind second base, where shortstop Jeremy Pena made a sliding catch.\n\nGarc\u00eda earned the victory against the Angels on September 1st, allowing three hits and three runs in six innings in his first start since May 1st, 2023.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Garc\u00eda Leaves the Game with Injury In an unexpected turn of events, Houston Astros right-handed pitcher Luis Garc\u00eda had to leave Tuesday&#8217;s game in Toronto due to an apparent injury. Garc\u00eda, who was making his second start after more than two years of inactivity following Tommy John surgery, was replaced by AJ Blubaugh in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[91,290,6581,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-32994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-injury","10":"tag-luis-garcia","11":"tag-mlb"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32994","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=32994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}