{"id":5862,"date":"2023-01-09T04:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/australian-major-league-baseball-star-liam-hendricks-diagnosed-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T04:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T04:35:11","slug":"australian-major-league-baseball-star-liam-hendricks-diagnosed-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/australian-major-league-baseball-star-liam-hendricks-diagnosed-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Major League Baseball star Liam Hendricks diagnosed with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Australian athlete Liam Hendriks, who plays Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, will soon begin treatment after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_8ohDw yvdCO _54OLY\">\n<section class=\"gGaHX _3QUME\" role=\"contentinfo\" aria-label=\"key points\" data-component=\"KeyPoints\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/teaser\/101838212\">\n<h2 class=\"YtLlr u5PGL +QELh O4WVj fm7dv h6iTm LS87j RDGP5 Z5947 _5pKBM HXgQg\" data-component=\"Heading\">Key Point:<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"LoaHX\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><span class=\"R192- _5W+DW\"\/>Hendrix announced his cancer diagnosis on Instagram<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><span class=\"R192- _5W+DW\"\/>He says he is confident he will make a full recovery<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\"><span class=\"R192- _5W+DW\"\/>Hendrix has had a successful MLB career with the White Sox.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Hendrix announced on Instagram that he had recently been diagnosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">The three-time All-Star, born in Perth, is scheduled to begin treatment on Tuesday at AEDT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">&#8220;Hearing the word &#8216;cancer&#8217; shocked my wife and me, as millions of families do each year,&#8221; Hendricks wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">But I am determined to take the fight and overcome this new challenge with the same determination I have faced other obstacles in life.<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Social media embed\" class=\"_8ohDw yvdCO IfoSG\" data-print=\"inline-media\" itemid=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CnLGoQlPN8C\/?hl=en\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/SocialMediaPosting\">\n<div class=\"M+bSV\">\n<p><span data-component=\"Loading\" data-print=\"inline-media\" class=\"_92YnJ A1S8i\"><span class=\"INTiE rHIkB Awrs9\"\/><span class=\"bMd+E\" role=\"alert\" aria-live=\"assertive\">Loading Instagram content<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Hendricks said he is &#8220;confident&#8221; he will &#8220;fully recover and return to the mound as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">&#8220;With the support of my wife, family, teammates and the Chicago White Sox organization, and the treatment and care of the doctors, I am confident that I will be able to get through this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Hendricks was named to the All-Star team for the third time last season with 37 saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">After leaving the Oakland Athletics to sign a three-year, $78 million deal with the White Sox, he will lead the American League in 2021 with a career-high 38 saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Hendrix has 115 saves and a 3.81 ERA over 12 seasons with the Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, Oakland and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\"><strong>AAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiY2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFiYy5uZXQuYXUvbmV3cy8yMDIzLTAxLTA5L21sYi1hdXN0cmFsaWFuLWxpYW0taGVuZHJpa3MtZGlhZ25vc2VkLXdpdGgtY2FuY2VyLzEwMTgzODE4ONIBKGh0dHBzOi8vYW1wLmFiYy5uZXQuYXUvYXJ0aWNsZS8xMDE4MzgxODg?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Australian athlete Liam Hendriks, who plays Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox, will soon begin treatment after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/f422c04b1b0105e4ee97ceb00f701647.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}