Rays' Jonathan Aranda collides with Giancarlo Stanton and will miss time with a left wrist injury

NEW YORK (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays All-Star first baseman Jonathan Aranda will miss time with a left wrist injury after he collided with New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton while reaching for an errant throw Thursday.

After his team's 7-4 loss in a game interrupted by rain, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said preliminary X-rays were inconclusive and Aranda will undergo further testing on Friday before the Rays host the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“Crushing,” Cash said. “Crushing for Jonny and crushed for us.”

Stanton hit a soft grounder in the fifth inning to third baseman Junior Caminero, who charged in on wet grass to field the ball. Aranda reached for Caminero's wide toss that sailed into the runner, and his left wrist appeared to hit Stanton’s left shoulder.

“It's a play that you rarely do,” Aranda said through an interpreter. “What happened was he was coming, I was going to the ball and I guess we got entangled there. It was one of those rare things."

Aranda fell to the ground in pain and shook his head while on his back. He was tended to by Cash and an athletic trainer before walking off the field.

“Terrible. I never want to be a part of that,” Stanton said. “You never want to see that. I don’t know the full diagnosis but I hope he’s all right.”

Brandon Lowe moved over from second base to replace Aranda at first, and José Caballero entered at second. Caballero was pulled by the Rays in the middle of the seventh because he was traded to the Yankees, so Matt Thaiss finished the game at first.

Aranda is hitting .316 with 12 homers and 54 RBIs in 103 games this season. He hit an RBI single in Tampa Bay’s four-run fourth against Marcus Stroman.

“It was something rare," Aranda said. "I’ve never felt anything like that before, so it was very painful.”

It was the third injury of the day for the Rays, who are 8-20 in their last 28 games.

Designated hitter Yandy Díaz was hit by a pitch in the first and exited with a bruised right forearm. He was replaced by Christopher Morel when his spot in the batting order came up in the fourth.

Díaz is hitting .283 with 18 homers and 62 RBIs in 105 games.

Tampa Bay also lost rookie outfielder Chandler Simpson to an sprained left index finger in the third. Simpson was playing left field and was replaced by Jake Mangum after getting his left hand checked out.

Simpson is hitting .297 with 32 stolen bases in 65 games.

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Tampa Bay Rays' Yandy Díaz is hit by a pitch in the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Tampa Bay Rays' Jonathan Aranda reacts after he was injured in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Tampa Bay Rays' Jonathan Aranda (62) is tended to after he was injured in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

NEW YORK (AP) — Min Jin Lee's first novel since her million-selling “Pachinko” is a long book that grew out of a basic question: What do Koreans care most about?

“We’re obsessed with education, and it became my obsession over why Koreans care so much,” says Lee, whose “American Hagwon,” scheduled for Sept. 29, will likely be one of the year's most anticipated books. Hagwons are for-profit tutoring centers — sometimes likened to “cram schools” — where Koreans of all ages receive instruction for everything from English to guitar to cooking. Any language school or organization that gives private lesson music classes” can be considered a Hagwon, Lee says.

The author, 57, calls herself an “accidental historian,” a novelist who uses broad narratives to unearth the past, make sense of the present and explore race, gender and class among other issues. “American Hagwon” is the third of a planned quartet about Korea and the Korean diaspora that began with “Free Food for Millionaires” in 2007 and continued a decade later with “Pachinko,” a National Book Award finalist that was adapted by Apple TV+ into a series and has been translated into dozens of languages.

In 2024, The New York Times ranked “Pachinko” at No. 15 among the best novels of the 21st century.

Cardinal, a Hachette Book Group imprint, is calling her new release a deep look into “what happens when the rules shift, the world order becomes suddenly unrecognizable and benchmarks of success are no longer a guarantee.” In “American Hagwon,” Lee sets her story everywhere from Korea to Australia to Southern California as she tracks the journey of a middle-class Korean family upended by the Asian financial crisis and hoping to regain its bearings.

“Almost 10 years after Pachinko, Min Jin Lee continues to give shape to history’s seismic shifts in her fiction, refracting generational change through indelible, masterfully etched characters you can’t help rooting for,” Cardinal Publisher and Senior Vice President Reagan Arthur said in a statement.

A native of Seoul whose family emigrated to New York City when she was 7, Lee attended the elite Bronx High School of Science, studied history at Yale University and law at Georgetown University. She knows well the importance of preparation, and laughs as she remembers that her father has nicknamed her “the turtle,” because she is slow — but “very steady.” Her books take a long time, in part, because she puts so much work into them. Her stories are based not just on research and reflection, but on extended travel and interviews.

“I want to hold up a mirror to society, and, as the kids say, do a ’vibe check,” she says.

FILE - Min Jin Lee attends the GQ Global Creativity Awards in New York on April 6, 2023. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)