{"id":628046,"date":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:50:14","slug":"royals-cole-ragans-leaves-start-against-cleveland-because-of-triceps-and-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628046\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals’ Cole Ragans leaves start against Cleveland because of triceps and elbow soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals<\/a> left-hander Cole Ragans<\/a> left his start against Cleveland after three scoreless innings on Wednesday night because of left triceps and elbow soreness.<\/p>\n

Luinder Avila<\/a> started warming up in the bottom of the third and entered to start the fourth.<\/p>\n

Ragans, 28, allowed one hit, walked two and struck out four, throwing 58 pitches. He is 1-4 with a 4.84 ERA. this season. <\/p>\n

He walked two batters in the first inning and escaped the two-on, one-out trouble by striking out Rhys Hoskins<\/a> and David Fry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a perfect second, Chase DeLauter<\/a> doubled with two outs in the third and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez reached on a throwing error by third baseman Maikel Garcia<\/a>. Hoskins hit an inning-ending popup.<\/p>\n

Ragans had Tommy John surgery in March 2018 while in the Texas minor league system, then tore the grafted ligament during his rehabilitation and had a second Tommy John surgery in May 2019. He returned to the major leagues in August 2022.<\/p>\n

He was traded to to Kansas City in August 2023 and became a first-time All-Star in 2024, going 11-9 with a 3.14 ERA in 32 starts. He was sidelined from the Royals between June 5 and Sept. 17 last year because of a strained left rotator cuff.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals left-hander Cole Ragans left his start against Cleveland after three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-628046","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\/628046","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=628046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}