{"id":81384,"date":"2024-07-26T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T23:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81384"},"modified":"2024-07-26T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T23:47:48","slug":"tigers-riley-greene-il-hamstring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/26\/tigers-riley-greene-il-hamstring\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakout Player for Tigers Lands on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hamstring injury has hampered Detroit Tigers outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/greenri03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riley Greene<\/a>, with the 23-year-old about to go on the 10-day IL. This is an unfortunate time for this injury to occur so close to the MLB Trade Deadline on July 30th. <span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Utility player\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/viladry01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-26_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Vilade<\/a> has been recalled from Triple-A in response to this injury<\/span>. Greene&#8217;s exact diagnosis was a right hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Riley Greene&#8217;s breakout season gets interrupted with a hamstring injury <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/goU2DcmQzu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/goU2DcmQzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/1816911817463202117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tigers Breakout Player Riley Greene Goes on IL<\/h2>\n<h3>Greene&#8217;s Successful Season<\/h3>\n<p>Before getting hamstrung with a hamstring injury, Greene was having a fairly successful season. He had a .264 batting average, 17 home runs, 51 RBIs, and 98 hits. His 17 dingers lead the team. It&#8217;s a significant setback for the Tigers, who are now trying to make a push for a Wild Card spot following a successful series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/blue-jays-pitcher-experiences-more-setbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">struggling Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>. It&#8217;s been a continuous train of non-stop injuries this season, and it&#8217;s been hard to stop the bleeding. Practically every team in MLB has had to deal with an abundance of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/17\/yankees-injuries-lefty-slugger-rizzo-dominguez\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Greene sits in the top five for OPS in the American League at .842. This helped lead to his first All-Star selection, which is a boost of confidence for the Orlando, Florida youngster. Greene also hit the 100-game mark for the first time on July 24th. The growth each year in his career hasn&#8217;t gone unrecognized. In his first season with the Tigers, he hit four home runs, and then last season, 11. He&#8217;s already at 17 just barely into the second half of the season. Hopefully, his injury doesn&#8217;t leave him on the IL for too long, but it&#8217;s already a setback in his most successful season so far. His career high in RBI (51), along with his decreasing strikeout rate (25.5%) and increasing walk rate (11.9%) were all positive signs for Greene this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Junfu Han \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hamstring injury has hampered Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene, with the 23-year-old about to go on the 10-day IL. This is an unfortunate time for this injury to occur so close to the MLB Trade Deadline on July 30th. Utility player\u00a0Ryan Vilade has been recalled from Triple-A in response to this injury. Greene&#8217;s exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":81390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[11,1071,35],"tags":[329,2634,1396,49,4681,2658],"class_list":["post-81384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tigers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-all-star","tag-riley-greene","tag-ryan-vilade","tag-trade-deadline","tag-triple-a","tag-utility-player"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384","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\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}