{"id":810804,"date":"2026-07-18T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T20:38:09","slug":"colorado-rockies-reinstate-righty-tomoyuki-sugano-from-injured-list-to-start-against-cincinnati-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810804\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies reinstate righty Tomoyuki Sugano from injured list to start against Cincinnati Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DENVER (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/colorado-rockies\/251\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tomoyuki-sugano\/727370\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tomoyuki-sugano\/727370\" target=\"_blank\">Tomoyuki Sugano<\/a> returned from a stint on the injured list with back spasms to make a start Saturday against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/elly-de-la-cruz\/1299668\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/elly-de-la-cruz\/1299668\" target=\"_blank\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sugano was placed on the 15-day IL earlier this month because of his balky back while also dealing with a fingernail issue. It was his first time on the IL in his Major League Baseball career. The Japanese standout had an elbow ailment while playing for the Yomiuri Giants in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 36-year-old Sugano is 8-4 with a 4.80 ERA in his first season with Colorado. He joined the Rockies after spending a season with Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think we\u2019ll see vintage Tomo Sugano today,\u201d Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer said before the game. \u201cJust looking for more of the same out of Tomo \u2014 a professional start, give us a chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sugano faced the Reds on April 29 and earned the win by throwing 5 1\/3 scoreless innings. He is 3-0 over three starts against NL Central teams this season with a 2.20 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rockies also placed right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jeff-criswell\/1056070\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jeff-criswell\/1056070\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Criswell<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with a strained right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pat Graham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Colorado Rockies right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano returned from a stint on the injured list with back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-810804","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\/810804","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=810804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}