{"id":663991,"date":"2026-04-05T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:04:31","slug":"brewers-sal-frelick-exits-vs-royals-with-left-side-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663991\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers&#8217; Sal Frelick exits vs. Royals with left side tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> right fielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4417795\/sal-frelick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sal Frelick<\/a> exited the second game of Saturday&#8217;s split doubleheader in the fourth inning with left side tightness.<\/p>\n<p>In his second at-bat, Frelick grimaced as he lined a single to center.<\/p>\n<p>After a lengthy discussion involving Brewers manager Pat Murphy and trainer Brad Epstein, Frelick left the game.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by pinch runner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42641\/brandon-lockridge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Lockridge<\/a>, who stole second and later stayed in the game to play left field as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36974\/blake-perkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Perkins<\/a> moved to right field.<\/p>\n<p>Frelick singled and walked during the Brewers&#8217; 5-2 victory in the first game.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is in his fourth season with Milwaukee, which selected him with the 15th overall pick in the 2021 amateur draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; Milwaukee Brewers right fielder Sal Frelick exited the second game of Saturday&#8217;s split doubleheader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-663991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116350122614766314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663991","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=663991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}