{"id":733765,"date":"2026-06-23T21:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:06:28","slug":"reds-elly-de-la-cruz-is-activated-after-spending-3-weeks-on-injured-list-with-strained-hamstring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733765\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz is activated after spending 3 weeks on injured list with strained hamstring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Elly De La Cruz was back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Reds\/status\/2069491974927720870?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cincinnati Reds&#8217; lineup<\/a> for Tuesday night&#8217;s game against Milwaukee after spending just over three weeks on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds announced they activated the two-time All-Star shortstop, who strained his right hamstring on May 31, and optioned outfielder Will Benson to Triple-A Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz completed a three-game rehab assignment at Louisville over the weekend. He homered and played five innings at shortstop on Friday, was 0 for 3 as the designated hitter Saturday and 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and an error on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz was batting .280 with an .855 OPS and 12 home runs in 58 games before he went on the IL for the first time in his major league career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Elly De La Cruz was back in the Cincinnati Reds&#8217; lineup for Tuesday night&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2400],"tags":[5,535,50,91382,4259,1177,4,9501,9496,83365,82744,536,7656],"class_list":["post-733765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-reds","tag-baseball","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cincinnati-reds-mlb","tag-cincinnatireds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","tag-reds","tag-will-benson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116801462814394912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733765","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=733765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}