{"id":19871,"date":"2025-05-12T00:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/19871\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:58:19","slug":"injury-update-announced-regarding-blue-jays-catcher-alejandro-kirk-after-being-hit-by-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/19871\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury update announced regarding Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk after being hit by bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injury update announced regarding Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk after being hit by bat <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATION<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluejaysinsider.com\/collaborators\/bobby-ohr\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Ohr<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 11, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(7:14 PM)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/559114.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Blue Jays announce injury update regarding Alejandro Kirk #bluejays #mlb\" title=\"Blue Jays announce injury update regarding Alejandro Kirk #bluejays #mlb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Sportskeeda<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Blue Jays took on the Seattle Mariners this afternoon and catcher Alejandro Kirk left the game with a head injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays finally walked away from a series on top for the first time in a while after sweeping the Seattle Mariners in three straight games over the last few days in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p> Blue Jays announce injury update regarding catcher Alejandro Kirk<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays crushed the Mariners this afternoon putting up their highest score of the season with a 9-1 victory over the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>During the game, things took a turn for the worse for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/alejandro-kirk-672386\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kirk<\/a> as he took a bat straight to the mask and was removed from the game which the team stated was for precaution and replaced by Tyler Heineman.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Heineman is in the dugout now with his catchers gear on. Looks like starter Alejandro Kirk is out of the game as a precaution after getting hit in the back of his mask on a follow through swing.<\/p>\n<p>After the game the team reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/alejandro-kirk-672386\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kirk<\/a> was removed due to a head contusion and that they will be running some tests on him tomorrow in Toronto to see if it is anything serious.Alejandro Kirk has a \u00abhead contusion\u00bb but the #BlueJays will still test him tomorrow in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider says the bat clipped him and his helmet in a weird spot, which got his ear.<\/p>\n<p>John Schneider said Alejandro Kirk was removed from the game with a head contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the injury is nothing serious since this would put the Blue Jays is a very tough spot since they do not really have anyone else to rely on since Heineman is simply not an every day starter.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Blue Jays Insider<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>1 HOUR AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a072 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Injury update announced regarding Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk after being hit by bat<\/p>\n<p>Will Alejandro Kirk be ready for game against the Rays?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBLUEJAYSINSIDER.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluejaysinsider.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluejaysinsider.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injury update announced regarding Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk after being hit by bat PUBLICATION Bobby Ohr May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[3426,5,377,2554,3518,3386,4,65,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-19871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-alejandro-kirk","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-catcher","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-seattle-mariners","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","18":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114492152582944731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}