{"id":2496006,"date":"2026-07-10T04:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2496006"},"modified":"2026-07-10T04:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:17:59","slug":"vientos-leaves-mets-game-vs-royals-after-hbp-on-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vientos-leaves-mets-game-vs-royals-after-hbp-on-right-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Vientos leaves Mets game vs. Royals after HBP on right hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Mark Vientos exited the New York Mets\u2019 game against the Kansas City Royals after he was plunked on the right hand in the second inning of Thursday\u2019s matinee.<\/p>\n<p>Vientos, making a rare start at third base, was hit by Michael Wacha\u2019s 92 mph fastball. The 26-year-old whirled and ran into foul territory behind third base before falling on his knees. Third base coach Tim Leiper raced over to Vientos, who walked slowly to first base with interim manager Andy Green and a trainer, the latter of whom checked Vientos\u2019 hand.<\/p>\n<p>Vientos remained in the game before he was replaced at third base to open the third inning by Brett Baty, who shifted from second base. Rookie A.J. Ewing moved from center field to second base in his first big league appearance at the position; Ewing played 53 games at second in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrone Taylor replaced Ewing and hit the game-tying homer in his first at-bat to fuel a five-run fifth.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '808771641650845');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source worldbaseball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Mark Vientos exited the New York Mets\u2019 game against the Kansas City Royals after he was plunked on the right hand in the second inning of Thursday\u2019s matinee. Vientos, making a rare start at third base, was hit by Michael Wacha\u2019s 92 mph fastball. The 26-year-old whirled and ran into foul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2496007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2496006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vientos-leaves-Mets-game-vs-Royals-after-HBP-on-right.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2496008,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496006\/revisions\/2496008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}