{"id":645718,"date":"2026-05-03T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:05:13","slug":"twins-ace-joe-ryan-exits-early-vs-blue-jays-with-right-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/645718\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins ace Joe Ryan exits early vs. Blue Jays with right elbow soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins&#8217; ace exited his team&#8217;s game against the Toronto Blue Jays abruptly on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Ryan had faced only two batters \u2014 striking out Yohedrick Pi\u00f1ango and issuing a walk to Kazuma Okamoto \u2014 before signalling to his dugout and leaving the field with training staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins later <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiDavidi\/status\/2050990411510878236?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> that Ryan was removed from the game due to right elbow soreness. Rookie right-hander Andrew Morris entered in relief, making his sixth appearance of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, 29, appeared frustrated after missing high with a 91 m.p.h. fastball and promptly alerted his dugout that something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander&#8217;s fastball has averaged 92.6 m.p.h. this season, a full one m.p.h. lower than the 93.6 m.p.h. it sat last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan has a 3.76 ERA with 39 strikeouts and nine walks over 38.1 innings so far in 2026. A 2025 all-star, Ryan had a 3.42 ERA last season to go along with 194 strikeouts and 39 walks over 171 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins&#8217; other best starting option, Pablo Lopez, is out for the season after undergoing off-season Tommy John surgery. <\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays are aiming for a fourth straight series win in the finale of their four-game set against the Twins on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins&#8217; ace exited his team&#8217;s game against the Toronto Blue Jays abruptly on Sunday. Joe Ryan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-645718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645718","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=645718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}