{"id":663026,"date":"2026-04-04T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:32:19","slug":"blue-jays-place-catcher-alejandro-kirk-on-injured-list-with-fractured-thumb-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663026\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays place catcher Alejandro Kirk on injured list with fractured thumb | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have placed catcher Alejandro Kirk on the 10-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk fractured his left thumb in the 10th inning of Friday&#8217;s 5-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s Austin Hays fouled a pitch off the Toronto catcher&#8217;s hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kirk immediately left the game and was replaced by Tyler Heineman.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Kirk had X-rays after the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays have recalled Brandon Valenzuela from triple-A Buffalo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays have placed catcher Alejandro Kirk on the 10-day injured list. Kirk fractured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[3426,2309,5,2316,2323,2317,2313,2325,2413,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2327,2321,185,2324,70,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-663026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-alejandro-kirk","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-games","14":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","15":"tag-baseball-teams","16":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-playoffs","26":"tag-mlb-postseason","27":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","28":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-events","31":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","32":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663026","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=663026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}