{"id":43112,"date":"2025-05-21T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/43112\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:31:14","slug":"nl-central-leading-cubs-activate-happ-from-injured-list-option-ballesteros-to-iowa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/43112\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Central-leading Cubs activate Happ from injured list, option Ballesteros to Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Chicago Cubs activated outfielder Ian Happ from the injured list on Tuesday ahead of their game at Miami.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Happ had been sidelined since May 10 because of a left oblique strain. Before his injury, Happ was hitting .269 with three homers and 19 RBI in 39 games.<\/p>\n<p>Happ, in his ninth season with the Cubs, is in the lineup batting leadoff and playing left field against the Marlins in the second game of the teams\u2019 three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Happ, the NL Central-leading Cubs optioned catcher Mois\u00e9s Ballesteros to Triple-A Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago also placed right-handed reliever Porter Hodge on the 15-day injured list because of a left oblique strain and recalled right-handed pitcher Ethan Roberts from Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 The Chicago Cubs activated outfielder Ian Happ from the injured list on Tuesday ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,36,2540,6236,14146,778,4,1896,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-43112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-ian-happ","14":"tag-injured-list","15":"tag-iowa","16":"tag-left-oblique-strain","17":"tag-miami","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-moises-ballesteros","20":"tag-nl-central"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114544423081125806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43112","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=43112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}