{"id":169688,"date":"2025-10-28T02:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/george-springer-injury-update-blue-jays-star-pulled-from-world-series-game-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:51:44","slug":"george-springer-injury-update-blue-jays-star-pulled-from-world-series-game-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/george-springer-injury-update-blue-jays-star-pulled-from-world-series-game-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"George Springer injury update: Blue Jays star pulled from World Series game &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; <a href=\/picture-gallery\/sports\/mlb\/playoffs\/2025\/10\/20\/george-springer-home-run-sends-alcs-game-7\/86811074007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>George Springer<\/a> delivered the <a target=_blank href=https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/238 data-autotag=7f501204-c32c-4970-b406-b3cd4f4a426b rel=noopener data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> to the World Series. But he might be exiting for good after sustaining an injury in <a href=\/story\/sports\/mlb\/playoffs\/2025\/10\/27\/dodgers-blue-jays-world-series-score-live-channel-game-3-highlights\/86933143007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Game 3<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>Springer, Toronto&#8217;s designated hitter and leadoff man, winced and immediately walked toward the dugout after a seventh-inning swing as he faced Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski.\u00a0<br \/>Springer, who has been playing through significant knee pain, clutched his left lower back after his swing, consulted briefly with manager John Schneider and a trainer and walked to the dugout.\u00a0<br \/>He was replaced by pinch-hitter Ty France, who struck out.\u00a0<br \/>Springer&#8217;s three-run, seventh-inning <a href=\/story\/sports\/mlb\/columnist\/gabe-lacques\/2025\/10\/21\/george-springer-toronto-blue-jays-world-series-game-7-home-run\/86812555007\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>home run in Game 7<\/a> lifted them to victory in the AL Championship Series. He was 3-for-11 in the World Series at the time of injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxPS05MdFpBQmg1TzFXTG5GT05TQmZDaDdsU0czYTc2eDdXRTQ4YmlvcGJqV0FheTNOWlNBbWt3NWN5LXJJTFhWMGFVQTliekw1RGJfcGRSWG9wNEo3TU0taW9ROWRNamZtTEFOOFdvRW1tLWpiZDFkN3dBWXE2ZUZPNzF0b0xvdzlhTWs4X3F5VklHOExkR0tmZjlWR25sX0t0NkhmNXRpeTdldWdfLWpBM015VWdMRUEy?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; George Springer delivered the Toronto Blue Jays to the World Series. But he might be exiting for good after sustaining an injury in Game 3.\u00a0Springer, Toronto&#8217;s designated hitter and leadoff man, winced and immediately walked toward the dugout after a seventh-inning swing as he faced Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski.\u00a0Springer, who has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}