{"id":609513,"date":"2026-03-06T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609513\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:50:15","slug":"finger-injury-puts-astros-star-penas-world-baseball-classic-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/609513\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger Injury Puts Astros Star Pe\u00f1a\u2019s World Baseball Classic in Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/news-1772786934737.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a suffered a finger injury while playing for the Dominican Republic team and was sent to a hand specialist for evaluation. The injury occurred during an exhibition game and could impact his availability for the World Baseball Classic starting Friday.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/news-1772786934737.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32319\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a\u2019s participation in the World Baseball Classic remains uncertain after he was referred to a hand specialist Thursday for evaluation of a right ring finger injury.<\/p>\n<p>Astros manager Joe Espada informed media at the team\u2019s spring training facility that Pe\u00f1a sustained damage to the nail region of his finger while fielding a sharply hit ground ball during Wednesday\u2019s exhibition match for the Dominican Republic national squad. Team officials removed Pe\u00f1a from the game following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic is scheduled to face Nicaragua on Friday in Miami for their opening World Baseball Classic matchup.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old infielder is coming off his most productive major league campaign in 2025, earning his inaugural All-Star selection while posting a .304 batting average, .840 OPS, and swiping 20 bases.<\/p>\n<p>                    More from TV Delmarva Channel 33 News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a suffered a finger injury while playing for the Dominican Republic team and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[75638,75639,42,5,75632,75640,75634,75635,75633,75636,139,54,3211,4,75637],"class_list":{"0":"post-609513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-102-3","9":"tag-102-3fm","10":"tag-astros","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-fine-day","13":"tag-fine-day-102-3","14":"tag-fine-day-fm","15":"tag-fine-day-media","16":"tag-fine-day-radio","17":"tag-have-a-fine-day","18":"tag-houston","19":"tag-houston-astros","20":"tag-houstonastros","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-weller-radio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116181614243090168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609513","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=609513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}