{"id":133294,"date":"2025-09-04T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:35:08","slug":"royals-place-right-hander-seth-lugo-on-il-with-back-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133294\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals place right-hander Seth Lugo on IL with back strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> placed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34873\/seth-lugo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Lugo<\/a> on the 15-day Injured List on Thursday because of a lower back strain. The move is retroactive to Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Originally scheduled to start Thursday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>, Lugo (8-7) was was scratched Wednesday because of back discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He came out and tried to play catch today,&#8221; manager Matt Quatraro said Thursday. &#8220;His back was still pretty stiff, so we&#8217;re going to put him on the IL.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right-hander Stephen Kolek took Lugo&#8217;s roster spot. He was expected to start Saturday against Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. &#8212; The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Seth Lugo on the 15-day Injured List on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-133294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}