{"id":864342,"date":"2026-08-20T00:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:10:20","slug":"athletics-activate-lhp-jeffrey-springs-from-il-ahead-of-start-vs-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864342\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics activate LHP Jeffrey Springs from IL ahead of start vs. Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> activated left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jeffrey-springs\/876019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jeffrey-springs\/876019\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Springs<\/a>, who had been out with an injured right hip, from the 15-day injured list and will start him in Wednesday night\u2019s game at Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/seth-johnson-374247\/1169574\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/seth-johnson-374247\/1169574\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Johnson<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas to make room on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Springs went into Wednesday\u2019s game with a 3-11 record and 6.17 ERA this season, with 88 strikeouts in 108 innings. He has given up 28 home runs, highest in the American League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 The Athletics activated left-hander Jeffrey Springs, who had been out with an injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-864342","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\/864342","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=864342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}