{"id":157686,"date":"2025-09-21T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157686\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:20:20","slug":"minnesota-twins-place-pablo-lopez-on-il-ending-his-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/157686\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins place Pablo Lopez on IL, ending his season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a6e97b3f-4244-98be-79a2-f4b33f3365e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> starting pitcher <a data-player-guid=\"1c22158c-6bbd-8762-762c-6a3e2757e8e9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39671\/pablo-lopez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Lopez<\/a> has been placed on the 15-day injured list with a mild right forearm strain.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was injured Friday night against Cleveland when he sprawled to toss a ball that deflected off his heel to the first baseman. He pitched one more inning before leaving the game. An MRI on Saturday revealed the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez, the team&#8217;s top starter entering the season, finishes an injury-ravaged season 5-4 with a 2.74 ERA in 14 starts. He missed 14 games with a right hamstring strain in April and 80 games from June 5 to Sept. 5 with a right shoulder strain.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46224483\/mlb-2025-free-agency-kyle-tucker-kyle-schwarber-predictions-contracts-deals-insiders\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758414020_564_r1543984_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Twins recalled right-hander Mick Abel from Triple-A St. Paul to take Lopez&#8217;s spot on the roster. Acquired from Philadelphia in July for closer <a data-player-guid=\"0090bfcb-e1df-5247-83fd-ce29fbff5787\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41109\/jhoan-duran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jhoan Duran<\/a>, Abel made two appearances &#8212; one start &#8212; for the Twins before being sent down Aug. 31. In four innings, he allowed 11 earned runs and 14 hits with three walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Pablo Lopez has been placed on the 15-day injured list with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-157686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}