{"id":35180,"date":"2025-09-17T00:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mets-alvarez-hit-again-another-scare-for-the-catcher\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:09:42","slug":"mets-alvarez-hit-again-another-scare-for-the-catcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/mets-alvarez-hit-again-another-scare-for-the-catcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Alvarez Hit Again: Another Scare for the Catcher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Francisco \u00c1lvarez Esquiva Another Injury, But Concern Persists for the Mets<\/h2>\n\nMets catcher Francisco \u00c1lvarez, who was already playing with a broken left pinky finger and a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his right thumb, avoided another injury on Tuesday night.\n\n\u00c1lvarez was hit on the upper part of his left arm by a pitch.\n\nThe 23-year-old showed signs of pain after being hit by a 100 mph fastball from San Diego Padres pitcher Bradgley Rodr\u00edguez in the eighth inning.\n\n\u00c1lvarez doubled over behind the plate and grabbed his left arm as he slowly walked towards first base with manager Carlos Mendoza and a trainer.\n\nHe was replaced by emerging runner Hayden Senger, but minutes later he appeared in the Mets&#8217; dugout, smiling and with a large bandage on his left arm.\n\nLater, he joined the greeting line after New York&#8217;s victory.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mendoza indicated that \u00c1lvarez was in pain, but it was not expected that he would undergo imaging tests.<\/p><cite>Carlos Mendoza<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMendoza commented that the blow did not seem to impact the elbow, but rather the triceps muscle area.\n\nHe added that they will wait to see how \u00c1lvarez feels the next day, but that for the moment they do not plan to perform X-rays or anything similar.\n\nThis was the third time in three weeks that \u00c1lvarez was hit on the left arm or hand.\n\nHis rehabilitation from the right thumb injury was halted on August 27 after he broke his pinky finger being hit by a pitch while batting for the Triple-A Syracuse Mets.\n\n\u00c1lvarez was also hit by a pitch from Cole Winn of the Texas Rangers on Saturday.\n\nAs night began, New York was 1.5 games ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the final National League wild card.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco \u00c1lvarez Esquiva Another Injury, But Concern Persists for the Mets Mets catcher Francisco \u00c1lvarez, who was already playing with a broken left pinky finger and a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his right thumb, avoided another injury on Tuesday night. \u00c1lvarez was hit on the upper part of his left arm by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2233,4533,290,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-35180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-fastball","9":"tag-francisco-alvarez","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-mets"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180","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=35180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}