{"id":590024,"date":"2026-04-06T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590024\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T22:52:08","slug":"cubs-place-lefty-matthew-boyd-biceps-strain-on-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs place lefty Matthew Boyd (biceps strain) on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Cubs<\/a> placed left-hander Matthew Boyd<\/a> on the 15-day injured list because of a left biceps strain Monday in another hit to the team’s starting rotation.<\/p>\n

The move, made retroactive to April 3, comes a day after the Cubs placed right-hander Cade Horton<\/a> on the injured list because of a strained forearm.<\/p>\n

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The Cubs recalled right-hander Javier Assad from Triple-A Iowa on Monday, and he will start Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Boyd, who was a first-time All-Star last season, is 1-1 with a 6.75 ERA in two starts this season. After struggling on Opening Day against the Washington Nationals<\/a>, he rebounded in his second start last Wednesday against the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> when he struck out 10 batters.<\/p>\n

Boyd went 14-8 with a 3.21 ERA last season in 179\u2154 innings, his most innings pitched since 2019 (185\u2153 for the Detroit Tigers<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Horton was sent back to Chicago for more tests after he felt discomfort throwing a pitch in his start Friday against the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs placed left-hander Matthew Boyd on the 15-day injured list because of a left biceps strain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-590024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590024","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=590024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}