{"id":78998,"date":"2026-09-21T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/cubs-bregman-suffers-reported-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-by-foul-ball-in-terrible-accident\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:55:43","slug":"cubs-bregman-suffers-reported-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-by-foul-ball-in-terrible-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/cubs-bregman-suffers-reported-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-by-foul-ball-in-terrible-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs\u2019 Bregman suffers reported facial fractures after being hit by foul ball in \u2018terrible accident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Third baseman was standing near on-deck circle<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>32-year-old hopes to return for postseason<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman suffered facial fractures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/20\/a-terrible-terrible-accident-cubs-bregman-undergoing-ct-scans-after-being-hit-in-face-by-foul-ball\">when he was hit in the head by a foul ball<\/a> on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/50000561\/sources-cubs-bregman-suffered-facial-fractures-foul-ball\">according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman was standing in the on-deck circle preparing for his at-bat when his teammate Michael Busch checked his swing and fouled off a pitch from the Cincinnati Reds\u2019 Luis Mey. The ball struck Bregman in the face, and he immediately jogged toward the Cubs\u2019 dugout with his hand covering the left side of his face. He was taken to hospital for X-rays and CT scans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/21\/alex-bregman-foul-ball-injury-baseball\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third baseman was standing near on-deck circle 32-year-old hopes to return for postseason Chicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman suffered facial fractures when he was hit in the head by a foul ball on Sunday, according to ESPN. Bregman was standing in the on-deck circle preparing for his at-bat when his teammate Michael Busch checked &#8230; <a title=\"Cubs\u2019 Bregman suffers reported facial fractures after being hit by foul ball in \u2018terrible accident\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/cubs-bregman-suffers-reported-facial-fractures-after-being-hit-by-foul-ball-in-terrible-accident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cubs\u2019 Bregman suffers reported facial fractures after being hit by foul ball in \u2018terrible accident\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}