{"id":29257,"date":"2025-07-22T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29257\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:09:09","slug":"the-royals-are-calling-up-45-year-old-pitcher-rich-hill-to-start-against-the-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/29257\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royals are calling up 45-year-old pitcher Rich Hill to start against the Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-67a1be\" class=\"body-graf\">CHICAGO \u2014 The Kansas City Royals plan to call up 45-year-old pitcher Rich Hill from the minors for a start against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, marking the left-hander&#8217;s 21st season in the majors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a944d2\" class=\"body-graf\">Hill has been at Triple-A Omaha after joining the Royals as part of an offseason trade. He is 4-4 with a 5.36 ERA in nine starts at Omaha.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-7c374f\" class=\"body-graf\">Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro confirmed the club&#8217;s plans after Monday night&#8217;s 12-4 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-330049\" class=\"body-graf\">Hill appeared in four games last season for Boston. A start on Tuesday will make him the oldest active player in baseball.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e87348\" class=\"body-graf\">Hill made 11 postseason starts during his four years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, including two World Series starts in 2017 and another in 2018. He went 11-5 during the latter regular season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3e07fe\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Hill is 90-74 with a 4.01 ERA in 368 career MLB games. He has pitched 1,409 innings and has struck out 1,428.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 The Kansas City Royals plan to call up 45-year-old pitcher Rich Hill from the minors for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-29257","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\/29257","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=29257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}