BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox placed Willson Contreras on the 10-day injured list Monday because of a strained left hamstring that’s been hampering the slugger for over a month.
“He came out the other day, I don’t want to paint the picture that something way worse happened,” interim Boston manager Chad Tracy said before the start of a three-game series against Seattle.
“Just a recurring of the same thing,” Tracy said. “Just to the point where, you know, if we’ve got to give him another few days to let it calm down, it’s tough to be short bodies.”
The team decided shutting down Contreras would benefit both him and flexibility on the roster.
“How do we do this to get him completely over the hump, let him have the rest he needs so he’s with us for the final push? We got together as a group and felt like this was the best course of action,” Tracy said.
The 34-year-old Contreras is batting .274 and leads the team in homers (career-high 26) and RBIs (79) in his first season after being acquired in an offseason trade from St. Louis.
Boston recalled switch-hitter Mickey Gasper from Triple-A to take Contreras' spot. The 30-year-old Gasper has five homers and 19 RBIs with the Red Sox this season.
Contreras’ hamstring trouble led to him jog lightly on a grounder in a loss to the Athletics on Aug. 8, prompting loud boos from the Fenway Park fans.
A few days later, he told the media that the team knew he had some leg issues.
“If you know me by now, you know I play 100 percent day in and day out,” he said. “They have to have a reason for me not to run the bases and I had it. My coaching staff knew that.”
Also Monday, Tracy said right-hander Sonny Gray, who leads Boston in wins with a 16-4 record and 2.82 ERA, will have his start pushed from Tuesday to Saturday to give him some rest.
“Rest his body and make sure that he’s full-go down the stretch as well,” Tracy said.
Boston entered Monday holding a comfortable lead for the second of three AL wild-card spots with 25 regular-season games left.
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Boston Red Sox Willson Contreras hits New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells in the arm with his bat during the first inning of a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Monday spent a third day deliberating without reaching a verdict on whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 — a case that has drawn attention to maternal mental health after childbirth.
The jurors began discussing the case Thursday in Plymouth County Superior Court after hearing testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses, including her then-husband, and 10 defense witnesses over five weeks.
The jury is slated to resume deliberations on Tuesday.
While Clancy doesn’t deny strangling her children, her lawyer said she did it because she had lost her grip on reality due to postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness that can follow childbirth. In the months before the killings, Clancy sought treatment for her worsening mental health, including a stay in a psychiatric hospital.
Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing. They say she strangled the children because she was depressed and tired of living, and made a conscious choice to kill them before attempting suicide.
The jury could find her guilty of murder or the lesser crime of manslaughter, or it could acquit her if it finds that she wasn't in control of herself due to psychiatric problems. Clancy's sentence could be as severe as life in prison, or she could be released or remain confined in a mental health facility if acquitted.
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All three children — Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8 months — were strangled with exercise bands in the basement of the family's home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, before Clancy tried to kill herself while her husband was getting takeout and going to a pharmacy on Jan. 24, 2023.
Clancy, 36, who grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. She did not testify during the trial, but jurors heard at length from medical professionals who treated her, as well as from friends and relatives she had told about her mental health problems.
Her defense lawyer, Kevin Reddington, said after jurors ended their deliberations Monday that he hopes the case will change how women with similar conditions are treated by the healthcare system.
“It strikes a chord with many, many people. It strikes a chord with, I think, obviously, women because it’s atrocious,” he said about how several of Clancy’s medical appointments were done virtually.
Jurors heard from medical experts called by prosecutors and the defense, who disagreed about her likely state of mind when she killed the children.
The killings happened less than three weeks after Clancy was discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She cut herself before jumping from a second-floor window after strangling the children. She remains paralyzed from the waist down.
Associated Press writer Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed to this report.
Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them before they start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them before they start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy watches jurors as they enter the courtroom to start their second day of deliberations in her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 in Plymouth Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom for their second day of deliberations as defense attorney Kevin Reddington sits to her right at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Friday, Aug. 28, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
