{"id":597865,"date":"2026-04-11T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597865\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:05:07","slug":"angels-rookie-george-klassen-leaves-start-with-finger-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597865\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels rookie George Klassen leaves start with finger injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 11, 2026, 05:54 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"053868c7-8bff-5edb-3cb6-f5490f33ef99\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> rookie right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"86ce556b-b0c4-3b81-86cc-97c89887270c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5134517\/george-klassen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Klassen<\/a> left Saturday&#8217;s game against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"04b65a0b-3cca-d795-0e21-23606470418a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati<\/a> in the third inning because of a bruised nail on his right index finger.<\/p>\n<p>Klassen, making just his second big league appearance, exited with the Angels trailing 5-1 after allowing five runs, five hits and five walks and two strikeouts. He threw 72 pitches and allowed a solo homer to <a data-player-guid=\"9b8d6559-9c75-3d6b-bd28-b683001c0b83\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4722857\/spencer-steer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Steer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Klassen did not get a decision in his major league debut on April 5 against Seattle. He was the first Angels player to debut as a starter since left-hander <a data-player-guid=\"8974bf59-22ac-3895-a8fe-22e01cad4adf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5273851\/mitch-farris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Farris<\/a> last Sept. 2 at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles acquired the former sixth-round pick in the amateur draft choice from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ff1e263a-f6a6-93c3-1373-418623652ff0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> along with left-hander Sam Aldegheri for right-hander Carlos Est\u00e9vez on July 27, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 11, 2026, 05:54 PM ET CINCINNATI &#8212; Los Angeles Angels rookie right-hander George Klassen left Saturday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-597865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}