{"id":35211,"date":"2025-09-17T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/alvarez-hit-again-mets-optimistic-about-his-fitness\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:01:08","slug":"alvarez-hit-again-mets-optimistic-about-his-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/alvarez-hit-again-mets-optimistic-about-his-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvarez hit again: Mets optimistic about his fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Francisco \u00c1lvarez Avoids Major Injury After Being Hit by Throw<\/h2>\n\nMets catcher Francisco \u00c1lvarez has dodged another injury, despite playing with a fractured left pinky finger and a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right thumb. On Tuesday night, \u00c1lvarez was hit on the upper left arm by a pitch.\n\n\u00c1lvarez, visibly affected, was hit by a 100 mph fastball from San Diego Padres pitcher Bradgley Rodr\u00edguez in the eighth inning of the game the Mets won 8-3. The 23-year-old player doubled over behind the plate and grabbed his left arm while slowly walking towards first base with manager Carlos Mendoza and a trainer.\n\nAlthough he was replaced by pinch runner Hayden Senger, \u00c1lvarez appeared in the Mets&#8217; dugout minutes later, smiling and with a large bandage on his left arm. Subsequently, he joined the line of greetings 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 felt pain, but it was not expected that he would undergo imaging tests. &#8220;It seemed that it didn&#8217;t hit him in the elbow, but rather in the triceps area&#8221;, said Mendoza. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see how he feels tomorrow, but for now, we don&#8217;t plan to do X-rays or anything like that&#8221;.<\/p><cite>Carlos Mendoza<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThis is the third time in three weeks that \u00c1lvarez has been hit on the left arm or hand. His rehabilitation from the right thumb injury was interrupted on August 27 after he fractured his little finger when hit by a pitch while batting for the Triple-A Syracuse.\n\n\u00c1lvarez was also hit by a pitch from Cole Winn of the Texas Rangers on Saturday.\n\nNew York is 1.5 games ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks for the final National League wild card.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco \u00c1lvarez Avoids Major Injury After Being Hit by Throw Mets catcher Francisco \u00c1lvarez has dodged another injury, despite playing with a fractured left pinky finger and a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right thumb. On Tuesday night, \u00c1lvarez was hit on the upper left arm by a pitch. \u00c1lvarez, visibly affected, was hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4533,5994,290,755],"class_list":{"0":"post-35211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-francisco-alvarez","9":"tag-hit-by-pitch","10":"tag-injury","11":"tag-mets"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211","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=35211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}