{"id":602977,"date":"2026-04-12T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:35:09","slug":"rockies-kyle-freeland-scratched-from-start-due-to-sore-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602977\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies&#8217; Kyle Freeland scratched from start due to sore shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p>Apr 13, 2026, 07:35 AM<a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776036909_798_check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Rockies%27%20Kyle%20Freeland%20scratched%20from%20start%20due%20to%20sore%20shoulder&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com.au%2Fmlb%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F48469269\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=48469269\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p>SAN DIEGO &#8212; Left-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33839\/kyle-freeland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Freeland<\/a> was scratched from a scheduled start for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sd\/san-diego-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a> on Sunday after the game began because of soreness in the back of his pitching shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36093\/jimmy-herget\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Herget<\/a> warmed up quickly and opened the bottom of the first. He hit leadoff batter <a data-player-guid=\"3101949c-9938-6bfb-1268-08d11ebc8829\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35142\/ramon-laureano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramon Laureano<\/a> with a pitch, gave up a single to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35983\/fernando-tatis-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Tatis Jr<\/a>. and allowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31097\/manny-machado\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Machado<\/a>&#8216;s sacrifice fly in a 24-pitch inning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719068\/chase-dollander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase Dollander<\/a> took over in the second inning and gave up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35591\/ty-france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ty France<\/a>&#8216;s leadoff double and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41928\/freddy-fermin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddy Fermin<\/a>&#8216;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5216700\/valente-bellozo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valente Bellozo<\/a> entered for the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>Freeland, who turns 33 next month, is 1-1 with a 2.30 ERA in three starts over 15\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Multiple Authors Apr 13, 2026, 07:35 AMEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions SAN DIEGO &#8212; Left-hander Kyle Freeland was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602977","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\/602977","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=602977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}