Bad news for Atlanta Braves: Your star Ronald Acuña Jr. It has been placed on the 10 -day injured list due to a bother in the right Achilles tendon, according to David O’Brien of The Athletic.
The Venezuelan gardener was seen using an orthopedic boot after the 9-6 defeat against the Kansas City Royals, according to Mark Bowman of MLB.com. Acuña will return to Atlanta to undergo a magnetic resonance (MRI) on Wednesday that will determine the seriousness of the injury.
A worrying injury in a year already complicated
Acuña Jr., 27, resented while pursuing a Foul ball at the sixth inning of Tuesday’s game at the Kauffman Stadium. Shortly after, he was seen running with difficulty when trying to catch a high, which caused his departure from the game.
Acuña himself declared that he had already felt discomfort on Monday when he ran the bases, but pressed the manager Brian Snitker to play on Tuesday, arguing that he has been out of time this season. This was barely its 55th game of 2025, since it debuted at the end of May after a long rehabilitation by an anterior cross ligament (ACL) broken in the right knee.
Despite not having felt a “pop” in the tendon, Acuña confessed to being worried about its physical state in the long term.
Injury history and their impact on the braves
The current MVP of the National League 2023 has had a career marked by serious injuries. To the 2024 lesion is added the breakage of the left ACL in 2021, which left him out of the World Atlanta series title that year.
In 2025, despite the late start, Acuña was selected for the fifth time to the National League Star Game, registering an outstanding offensive line of .306/.429/.
