{"id":680313,"date":"2026-04-21T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T12:13:08","slug":"ronald-acuna-jr-day-to-day-after-being-hit-by-pitch-twice-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680313\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. \u2018day-to-day\u2019 after being hit by pitch twice \u2013 WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. left Monday night\u2019s game against the Washington Nationals early after he was hit by a pitch twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Braves said X-rays on his hand were negative and Acu\u00f1a is now listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Atlanta trailed the Nationals 2-0 in the fourth when Jake Irvin hit Acu\u00f1a with a fast ball. Two innings later, the Braves were down 3-2 when Irvin again hit Acu\u00f1a with a fastball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The second pitch appeared to hit Acu\u00f1a\u2019s left hand as he yelled in pain. Acu\u00f1a appeared in the on-deck circle in the top of the sixth, but manager Walt Weiss replaced him with Eli White in the bottom of the inning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Atlanta pitcher Bryce Elder hit a Nationals batter and the umpires issued warnings to both dugouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Braves won the first game of the series, 9-4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wsbtv.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Atlanta Braves right fielder Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. left Monday night\u2019s game against the Washington Nationals early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[152,5,4,505,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-680313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-national-league","12":"tag-nationals","13":"tag-washington","14":"tag-washington-nationals","15":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116442639134273732","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680313","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=680313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}