{"id":634364,"date":"2026-03-05T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/634364\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:51:13","slug":"astros-all-star-shortstop-jeremy-pena-has-a-finger-injury-that-makes-his-status-for-the-wbc-unclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/634364\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a has a finger injury that makes his status for the WBC unclear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Astros;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Astros<\/a> sent All-Star shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jeremy-pena-world-series-mvp-houston-astros-a18c6af189429cc7b5e70b0c033d72d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jeremy Pe\u00f1a;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jeremy Pe\u00f1a<\/a> to see a hand specialist on Thursday for further examination of an injury to his right ring finger that has made his immediate availability for <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-baseball-classic-australia-3dcdd7d467148b33329f26ab5aae8c7a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the World Baseball Classic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the World Baseball Classic<\/a> unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Astros manager Joe Espada told reporters at the team&#8217;s spring training complex that Pe\u00f1a had some damage to the nail area on the finger after fielding a hard groundball for the Dominican Republic national team during an exhibition game on Wednesday. Pe\u00f1a was pulled after that.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic plays its first game of the WBC on Friday in Miami against Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Pe\u00f1a is coming off a career-best season in 2025, when he made his first All-Star team and batted .304 with an .840 OPS and 20 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The Houston Astros sent All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a to see a hand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":634365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[270380,2382,34552,72338,380,1266,270381,62,67,132,68,3754],"class_list":["post-634364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-hand-specialist","tag-houston-astros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joe-espada","tag-miami","tag-mlb","tag-ring-finger","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-west-palm-beach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116177606321555478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}