{"id":283066,"date":"2026-04-24T02:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283066\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:10:34","slug":"seaman-grad-angels-reliever-ryan-zeferjahn-to-face-the-royals-this-weekend-in-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/283066\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaman grad, Angels reliever Ryan Zeferjahn to face the Royals this weekend in Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WIBW) &#8211; Seaman High School graduate and Los Angeles Angels pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/ryan-zeferjahn-666171\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/ryan-zeferjahn-666171\">Ryan Zeferjahn<\/a> is back in the area for a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals this weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2024\/08\/23\/topeka-native-set-make-mlb-debut\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2024\/08\/23\/topeka-native-set-make-mlb-debut\/\">Zeferjahn<\/a> was drafted by the Red Sox in the 3rd round of the 2019 draft and made his big league debut in August 2024. The former KU pitcher was surrounded by more than 30 family members and friends who made the trip to cheer him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/09\/03\/topeka-rallies-seaman-grad-ryan-zeferjahn-kauffman-stadium\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/09\/03\/topeka-rallies-seaman-grad-ryan-zeferjahn-kauffman-stadium\/\">last year<\/a> when he visited Kauffman Stadium. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He spoke with 13 NEWS a season ago: <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Angels and the Royals will begin the weekend series on Friday, April 24. You can watch the game on WIBW-TV beginning at 6:30 p.m. CT. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WIBW) &#8211; Seaman High School graduate and Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ryan Zeferjahn is back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1426,17819,9512,10909,2866,121526,119055,121528,121527,121523,121525,121524,26870,120968,120967],"class_list":{"0":"post-283066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-angels","12":"tag-kansas","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-royals","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-royals-angels","17":"tag-ryan-zeferjahn","18":"tag-ryan-zeferjahn-seaman","19":"tag-ryan-zeferjahn-topeka","20":"tag-seaman","21":"tag-seaman-baseball","22":"tag-seaman-topeka","23":"tag-topeka","24":"tag-topeka-kansas","25":"tag-topeka-ks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}