BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Zach Eflin was abruptly pulled from Tuesday night’s game between the Baltimore Orioles and Texas Rangers with right elbow discomfort in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
Eflin struck out seven in 3 2\/3 innings, allowing only one run on a solo homer by Ezequiel Duran in the third. With two on and two out in the fourth, there was a meeting on the mound when Duran came to the plate again. Eflin threw one more pitch, a ball, and then there was another meeting \u2014 this one including manager Craig Albernaz.<\/p>\n
Eflin was lifted and replaced by reliever Grant Wolfram, who got the third out.<\/p>\n
The Orioles re-signed Eflin to a one-year deal for $10 million this past offseason. It includes a $25 million mutual option or a $2 million buyout for 2027, with escalators for both: $1 million if he makes 15 starts this year, $1.5 million for 20 and $2.5 million for 25.<\/p>\n
Eflin went 6-5 with a 5.93 ERA during an injury-plagued 2025 for the Orioles, and his season ended early because of back issues.<\/p>\n
If Eflin has to miss significant time, Dean Kremer would appear to be the next option after he was sent down to start the season in the minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Zach Eflin was abruptly pulled from Tuesday night’s game between the Baltimore Orioles and Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88724,88726,88727,39233,88725,202,196,85770,942,82,84,83,88728],"class_list":["post-229426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-baltimore-orioles-zach-eflin","tag-craig-albernaz","tag-dean-kremer","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-grant-wolfram","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-zach-eflin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}