{"id":7833,"date":"2025-05-29T13:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/astros-walker-clean-x-rays-after-being-hit-by-pitch\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:17:49","slug":"astros-walker-clean-x-rays-after-being-hit-by-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/astros-walker-clean-x-rays-after-being-hit-by-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Walker: Clean X-rays After Being Hit by Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christian Walker Leaves Game After Being Hit by Pitch<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Houston Astros&#8217; starting pitcher, Christian Walker, had to leave Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Athletics after being hit by a pitch on his right hand.\n\n\n<p>Manager Joe Espada reported that the hit occurred on the upper part of the hand, near the knuckles. The X-rays taken were negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a good sign. We&#8217;ll see how he feels tomorrow,&#8221; Espada stated.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Joe Espada<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nWalker was hit by a 96 mph fastball thrown by Luis Severino in the fourth inning. He writhed in pain for a few seconds before heading to first base, where he was evaluated by a trainer.\n\n\n<p>Despite the hit, Walker remained in the game and scored after a two-out single by Cam Smith.<\/p>\n\n\nAfter playing defensively in the next two innings, he was replaced by pinch hitter Mauricio Dub\u00f3n in the bottom of the sixth inning.\n\n&#8220;He played defensively, and when he came back for his at-bat, we asked him to grab a bat, and he wasn&#8217;t feeling very comfortable doing it,&#8221; Espada explained.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Walker Leaves Game After Being Hit by Pitch The Houston Astros&#8217; starting pitcher, Christian Walker, had to leave Wednesday&#8217;s game against the Athletics after being hit by a pitch on his right hand. Manager Joe Espada reported that the hit occurred on the upper part of the hand, near the knuckles. The X-rays taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[91,88,2984,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-7833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-christian-walker","11":"tag-injury"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","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=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}