MLB team unaware of status of players currently in Venezuela amid US military strikes

The Milwaukee Brewers accidental they are unaware of the statuses of respective players presently successful Venezuela aft the U.S. subject conducted strikes connected the state and and took President Nicolás Maduro into custody. 

Brewers president of shot operations Matt Arnold revealed the squad is presently unaware of the presumption of the players successful a connection Saturday.  

"We don’t person overmuch info astatine the infinitesimal but are trying to travel up," Arnold said, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "We cognize the airports person been unopen down but not overmuch beyond that." 

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The Milwaukee Brewers observe a walk-off azygous by halfway fielder Jackson Chourio during the tenth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine American Family Field successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connected July 9, 2025. (Patrick Gorski/Imagn Images)

The team's players presently successful Venezuela see prima outfielder Jackson Chourio, infielder Andruw Monasterio and catcher Jeferson Quero, per the outlet.

The U.S. military's caller onslaught comes amid targeting of alleged drug-smuggling boats successful the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Forces carried retired a "large standard strike" successful Venezuela aboriginal Saturday greeting and took Venezuelan President Maduro and his woman into custody, President Donald Trump confirmed.

The president wrote connected Truth Social that the cognition was palmy and Maduro and his woman were "captured and flown retired of the country." Trump said the cognition was conducted with U.S. instrumentality enforcement.

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At slightest 7 explosions could beryllium heard successful Venezuela’s superior metropolis of Caracas aboriginal Saturday morning, according to The Associated Press, and low-flying craft were seen flying implicit Caracas astatine astir 2 a.m. section time. The helicopters seen flying implicit Caracas were portion of the U.S. Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, known arsenic the "Night Stalkers."

The Venezuelan authorities said successful a connection that "the civilian and subject localities of the metropolis of Caracas, superior of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira" were impacted by the attack.

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Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio (11) is seen earlier the 5th inning of an MLB crippled betwixt the Milwaukee Brewers and the Toronto Blue Jays connected August 31, 2025, astatine Rogers Centre successful Toronto, ON.  (Mathew Tsang/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The connection besides accused the U.S. of committing a "very superior subject aggression" against Venezuela and carrying retired "imperialist aggression."

"The nonsubjective of this onslaught is nary different than to prehend Venezuela's strategical resources, peculiarly its lipid and minerals, attempting to interruption the Nation's governmental independency by force," the Government of Venezuela said successful a statement. "They volition not succeed. After much than 2 100 years of independence, the radical and their morganatic Government stay steadfast successful defence of sovereignty and the inalienable close to determine their ain destiny."

Fox News Digital's Michael Sinkewicz and Lucas Y. Tomlinson contributed to this report.

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