{"id":36582,"date":"2020-08-12T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=36582"},"modified":"2020-08-12T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T20:22:47","slug":"andrew-benintendi-rib-heads-to-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2020\/08\/12\/andrew-benintendi-rib-heads-to-injured-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Benintendi (Rib) Heads to Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/boston-red-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> left fielder\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beninan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Benintendi<\/a><\/strong> is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/1293638778029068288?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heading to the Injured List<\/a>. According to various reports, the outfielder suffered a rib injury while on the basepaths in Tuesday&#8217;s 8-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andrew Benintendi sprained his right rib cage. He&#39;s going on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCotillo\/status\/1293638778029068288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Boston Red Sox Outfielder Andrew Benintendi Placed On Injured List<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Benintendi fell down in-between the basepaths during Tuesday&#8217;s lopsided loss. While the outfielder played through the injury, he reportedly strained his right rib cage and won&#8217;t be on the field for a little while. Ironically, this was arguably Benintendi&#8217;s best game of the season, as he went 2-3 from the leadoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his multi-hit game, Benintendi is having a season to forget. The left fielder just hasn&#8217;t looked right all season, and his numbers reflect that. Through the first 17 games of the season, Benintendi owns an underwhelming .103\/.314\/.128 slash line with an accompanying 47 wRC+. He&#8217;s striking out on 32.7% of his plate appearances and has yet to record a home run. The lone silver lining is that his 21.2% walk rate is well above league-average.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Benintendi&#8217;s season is basically a perfect encapsulation of the 2020 Boston Red Sox. While nobody had any serious hopes of competing for a title, this team still found a way to underwhelm early on. The pitching staff is one of the worst in the league, as\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/eovalna01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nathan Eovaldi<\/a><\/strong> is the only reliable arm on the staff. Additionally, the batters haven&#8217;t held up their end of the bargain. In addition to Benintendi, guys like\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/deverra01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafael Devers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/martijd02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">J.D. Martinez<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradlja02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jackie Bradley Jr.<\/a><\/strong>have been hot and cold throughout the season. This is, of course, just 17 games, so it probably doesn&#8217;t mean anything regarding their long-term outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the slow start, the Red Sox still have an outside shot at the playoffs. Boston faces off against the 10-8 Tampa Bay Rays today at 7:30.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/godleza01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zack Godley<\/a><\/strong> takes the mound for Boston, going up against\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/snellbl01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Snell<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"GF5Gz35NQjhdDYwwxEMbrw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1228007920\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'GF5Gz35NQjhdDYwwxEMbrw',sig:'1JPd7wyoLowtg-n03THWwU5ugPMsh09jTUBMPt7L7HI=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1228007920',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi is heading to the injured list after suffering a rib injury in Tuesday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":36584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1214,68,1122,240,1547,4046,941,69,1535,4045],"class_list":["post-36582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","tag-andrew-benintendi","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-j-d-martinez","tag-jackie-bradley","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-mlb","tag-rafael-devers","tag-red-sox-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}