{"id":412516,"date":"2023-02-13T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412516"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T21:15:46","slug":"yankees-cortes-out-of-wbc-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/yankees-cortes-out-of-wbc-with-hamstring-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees\u2019 Cortes out of WBC with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes suffered a hamstring injury, which will keep him out of the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nestor Cortes Jr. is no longer pitching for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MLBNetwork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gX6h1MOuiD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gX6h1MOuiD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Talkin&#39; Yanks (@TalkinYanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinYanks\/status\/1625194523356807168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He suffered a \u201clow grade two\u201d hamstring strain in his right leg last week while running sprints, which will cost him \u201ca couple weeks,\u201d though he still believes he can be ready for the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the ultimate goal here is to get ready for No. 28,\u201d Cortes said Monday at the Yankees\u2019 player development complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s kind of a letdown for the country, but I think the biggest goal right here is to get healthy and be ready for the start of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cortes said he didn\u2019t think much of the injury when it first happened last Monday, believing he just had a cramp.<\/p>\n<p>But later that night, he \u201cfelt a little pull\u201d while putting on a shoe and by the time he arrived at the Yankees\u2019 complex on Wednesday, told the staff he was \u201ca little banged up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He underwent testing on Friday that revealed the strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes suffered a hamstring injury, which will keep him out of the World Baseball Classic. Nestor Cortes Jr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16902,17483],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He still believes he can be ready for the start of the regular season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412516"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412516"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}