{"id":680104,"date":"2026-04-21T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680104\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T01:24:15","slug":"what-happened-to-ronald-acuna-jr-live-injury-updates-for-braves-vs-nationals-on-monday-4-20-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680104\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.? Live injury updates for Braves vs. Nationals on Monday 4\/20\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading151976_e554f3-7c\">Stan Son provides the latest status update for Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. on Monday, April 20.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: X-rays came back negative and Acu\u00f1a Jr. is considered day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">X-rays of Acuna&#8217;s hand were negative<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/2046392588517732370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the bottom of the sixth inning of Monday\u2019s game against the Washington Nationals, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. was replaced by Eli White. Acu\u00f1a Jr. was hit by a 91 mph four-seam fastball in the top of the inning, the second pitch that he saw in the at-bat. He remained in the game and eventually scored a run before being removed later on.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to exiting, Acu\u00f1a Jr. went 0-for-1 with a strikeout and run scored.<\/p>\n<p>Since Acu\u00f1a Jr. had two plate appearances during the game, he will not be eligible for DraftKings Early Exit.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to DK Network for live updates on his injury status.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stan Son provides the latest status update for Braves outfielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. on Monday, April 20. UPDATE:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-680104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nationals","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-nationals","13":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116440089485715211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680104","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=680104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}