{"id":780526,"date":"2026-08-16T21:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780526\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:21:48","slug":"dansby-swanson-leaves-the-cubs-game-against-the-cardinals-after-hurting-himself-on-a-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/780526\/","title":{"rendered":"Dansby Swanson leaves the Cubs&#8217; game against the Cardinals after hurting himself on a swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/dansby-swanson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dansby Swanson<\/a> left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>&#8216; game against St. Louis on Sunday after hurting himself when he swung and missed on the first pitch from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/st-louis-cardinals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinals<\/a> starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/hunter-dobbins-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Dobbins<\/a> in the third inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Swanson, a two-time Gold Glove winner at shortstop, seemed to twist awkwardly after swinging at a high fastball. He stepped to the right of the batter&#8217;s box, talked briefly with manager Craig Counsell and training staff, and exited to the dugout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The Cubs said Swanson had discomfort in his left side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Swanson was replaced in the at-bat by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/james-triantos-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Triantos<\/a>, who went on to draw a walk. Triantos remained in the game at second base, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/nico-hoerner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nico Hoerner<\/a> moving from second to short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The 32-year-old Swanson, in his 11th season, had Saturday off as a routine maintenance day. He entered Sunday batting .216 with 18 home runs and 66 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The two-time All-Star has played at shortstop in 117 of the Cubs&#8217; 125 games this season. Swanson entered Sunday with a .987 fielding percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">See AP\u2019s full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson left the Chicago Cubs&#8216; game against St. Louis on Sunday after hurting himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,24,733,1925,9672,19,4,33,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":["post-780526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-hunter-dobbins","tag-james-triantos","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117107290504110186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780526","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=780526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}