{"id":673939,"date":"2026-04-12T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:15:23","slug":"orioles-rutschman-placed-on-il-with-left-ankle-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673939\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles&#8217; Rutschman placed on IL with left ankle inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 11, 2026, 06:53 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orioles<\/a> catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42178\/adley-rutschman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adley Rutschman<\/a> was placed on the 10-day injured list Saturday with left ankle inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced the move before its game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rutschman was scratched from the Orioles&#8217; lineup about two hours before first pitch. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917646\/samuel-basallo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Basallo<\/a>, originally slated to be the designated hitter, replaced Rutschman behind the plate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34940\/ryan-mountcastle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Mountcastle<\/a> was inserted at DH.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore selected catcher Maverick Handley from Double-A Chesapeake, and right-handed pitcher Chayce McDermott was designted for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Rutschman was limited to 90 games last season due to injuries and hit .220 with nine home runs and 29 RBIs. He went 3-for-5 with two doubles in a 6-3 loss Friday night and is batting .294 with three RBIs through 10 games this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 11, 2026, 06:53 PM ET BALTIMORE &#8212; Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman was placed on the 10-day injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-673939","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\/116390744770276343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673939","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=673939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}