{"id":763463,"date":"2026-07-28T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:06:21","slug":"giants-3b-casey-schmitt-leaves-game-versus-brewers-in-2nd-inning-due-to-apparent-leg-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/763463\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants 3B Casey Schmitt leaves game versus Brewers in 2nd inning due to apparent leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants third baseman Casey <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FNBCSGiants%2Fstatus%2F2081926450475921732%2Fvideo%2F1&amp;data=05%7C02%7Capeterson%40ap.org%7C9b892bdb5eb049de4fb508deec67da78%7Ce442e1abfd6b4ba3abf3b020eb50df37%7C1%7C0%7C639208128001016009%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Sep56RPxqG7JimjLw%2BU7E%2Fhtj%2FV9IjX0sRZ5F8nwk%2BU%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Schmitt left Monday night\u2019s game<\/a> against the Milwaukee Brewers in the bottom of the second inning due to a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt appeared to hurt his left leg after rounding first base following a single to right field. He showed discomfort and was grasping at his lower left leg after the play. <\/p>\n<p>Schmitt was able to walk off the field on his own power, limping with a trainer at his side as he left the game. Schmitt was replaced by backup Christian Koss and the Giants went on to <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brewers-giants-score-414c13a6d1df475346dd2dbbcf316cc0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat the Brewers 3-0<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cScary moment there for him,\u201d manager Tony Vitello said after the game. \u201cHe\u2019s a unique personality, but he\u2019s definitely got a level of toughness to him. And you go out there and he was really struggling just to kind of even move around there with (head trainer Dave Groeschner) checking on him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Schmitt will undergo an MRI and it is not yet known whether he\u2019ll be added to the injury list. Regardless, Vitello doesn\u2019t expect Schmitt to be back right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, (he is) probably going to miss some significant time,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cBut based off what we see tomorrow, be interesting what (Groeschner) has, hoping it\u2019s as limited an amount of time as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt adds to San Francisco\u2019s growing injury list as the team was already without third baseman Matt Chapman (abdominal strain) and outfielders Jung Hoo Lee (right elbow soreness), and Victor Bericoto (left oblique strain). <\/p>\n<p>Vitello commented that with Schmitt\u2019s injury, rather than rush starter Chapman back, they\u2019ll look to another player to fill in at third base.<\/p>\n<p>Schmitt is hitting .271 with 21 home runs and 55 RBIs, all career bests. Schmitt signed a one-year, $810,000 contract this past year.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 San Francisco Giants third baseman Casey Schmitt left Monday night\u2019s game against the Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[3287,5,136,2178,9406,7885,76399,375,379,843,59,4280,4,256,66,185,1870,72305],"class_list":["post-763463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-california","tag-casey-schmitt","tag-christian-koss","tag-dave-groeschner","tag-jung-hoo-lee","tag-matt-chapman","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-tony-vitello","tag-victor-bericoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116996340736069328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763463","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=763463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}