{"id":8043,"date":"2025-05-29T16:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/astros-walker-hit-by-pitch-x-rays-clear\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:10:01","slug":"astros-walker-hit-by-pitch-x-rays-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/astros-walker-hit-by-pitch-x-rays-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Walker Hit by Pitch: X-rays Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christian Walker Leaves Game After Being Hit by Pitch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\nManager Joe Espada reported that the hit impacted the top of the hand, near the knuckles, and that the X-rays were negative.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a good sign. We&#8217;ll see how he feels tomorrow,&#8221; Espada commented.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Joe Espada<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWalker was hit by a 96 mph pitch from Luis Severino in the fourth inning. After the hit, he showed signs of pain, but managed to reach first base, where he was attended to by the trainer.\n\n\n<p>Despite the hit, Walker remained in the game and scored a run thanks to a single by Cam Smith with two outs.<\/p>\n\n\nWalker continued to play defensively for two more innings before being replaced by pinch hitter Mauricio Dub\u00f3n in the bottom of the sixth inning.\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He played defensively, and when we asked him to take a bat, he wasn&#8217;t comfortable,&#8221; Espada added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Walker Leaves Game After Being Hit by Pitch 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 impacted the top of the hand, near the knuckles, and that the X-rays were negative. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[91,88,2984,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-8043","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\/8043","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=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}