{"id":663273,"date":"2026-04-04T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663273\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:11:28","slug":"mariners-brendan-donovan-injury-update-doesnt-sound-like-great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663273\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners&#8217; Brendan Donovan injury update doesn&#8217;t sound like great news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> have enjoyed having Brendan Donovan on their roster so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>But right now, Donovan is dealing with an injury, and it&#8217;s not clear how it might impact him going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan exited Friday&#8217;s game after an odd play.<\/p>\n<p>Running to first base, Donovan noticed that it was going to be a close play, and his strides weren&#8217;t timed up perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>So on his last stride, he extended extra far, and when his foot hit the bag, his leg appeared to tweak at a slightly odd angle.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\/news\/2-mlb-players-named-max-muncy-mind-blowing-things-common-dodgers\/23ff57d286098cef7421893b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explaining the absurdity of 2 MLB players named Max Muncy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear what had happened, but Donovan left the game, and Leo Rivas came in at third base.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, the words used by the Mariners were that Donovan had &#8220;discomfort somewhere in his leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brendan Donovan had some discomfort &#8220;somewhere in his leg&#8221; after hitting the bag awkwardly. They will reevaluate him tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Divish (@RyanDivish) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanDivish\/status\/2040301841251189114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/meet-tyler-uberstine-red-sox-newest-roster-addition-path-mlb-impossible\/7f5fabf8bc017b19785adf15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This Red Sox pitcher traveled an impossible path to the major leagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mariners would certainly like to get Donovan back sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a Donovan injury would have a fascinating consequence &#8212; it would likely result in a promotion for phenom Colt Emerson for his MLB debut.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson is probably coming soon anyway. Will Donovan&#8217;s ailment accelerate that? Seattle fans might find out soon.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners have enjoyed having Brendan Donovan on their roster so far this season. But right now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-663273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348026250676533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663273","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=663273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}