{"id":627910,"date":"2026-05-07T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627910\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:16:13","slug":"royals-call-cerantola-up-to-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627910\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Call Cerantola Up To The Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Eric Cerantola became the 72nd player in Mississippi State history to be called up to the Major Leagues on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Kansas City Royals called up the 26-year-old reliever from Triple-A and could make his MLB debut as early as Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the Cleveland Guardians at 6:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cerantola has been splendid through a dozen appearances with Omaha this season, sporting a 1-0 record, five saves and a 1.42 earned run average with 18 strikeouts across 12 2\/3 innings. He also pitched for Team Canada during the World Baseball Classic in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The 6-foot-5, 225-pounder from Oakville, Ontario lettered for the Diamond Dawgs from 2019-21 where he appeared in 25 games and made a dozen starts. He finished his college career with a 4-2 record, 4.41 ERA, 67 strikeouts and 33 walks across 49 total innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cerantola was a fifth-round draft pick by Kansas City in 2021 coming off the heels of helping MSU claim its first national championship. He is the first Bulldog to make it #FromStateToTheShow since Jake Mangum on March 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">State currently has nine players on MLB rosters following Justin Foscue being recalled by the Texas Rangers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hailstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.HailState.com<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and information on the baseball program. Fans can also follow the program on social media by searching &#8216;HailStateBB&#8217; on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HailStateBB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HailStateBB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hailstatebb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Cerantola became the 72nd player in Mississippi State history to be called up to the Major Leagues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-627910","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\/627910","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=627910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}