{"id":629400,"date":"2026-05-07T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629400\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:36:18","slug":"former-fireflies-pitcher-eric-cerantola-pitches-scoreless-inning-in-mlb-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/629400\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fireflies pitcher Eric Cerantola pitches scoreless inning in MLB debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">NOTE: The above video is a livestream of WIS featuring current newscasts, Soda City Living, and Gray Media\u2019s Local News Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) &#8211; On Wednesday, former Columbia Fireflies pitcher Eric Cerantola made his Major League debut with the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The right-handed pitcher threw a scoreless ninth inning, striking out two against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cerantola is the 33rd Fireflies player to make his Major League debut\u2014and the first to do so during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">The Royals selected Cerantola in the fifth round of the 2021 draft after three years at Mississippi State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He has posted a 3.59 ERA over 245.2 minor-league innings with 326 strikeouts. Cerantola\u2019s 11.84 K\/9 is tied for the 13th-best mark among pitchers with at least 240 minor-league innings since 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WIS. For more free content like this, subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">email newsletter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/page\/apps\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">download our apps<\/a>. Have feedback that can help us improve? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/05\/07\/former-fireflies-pitcher-eric-cerantola-pitches-scoreless-inning-mlb-debut\/mailto:wis-webproducers@gray.tv?subject=[please%20include%20the%20article%27s%20headline%20here]\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOTE: The above video is a livestream of WIS featuring current newscasts, Soda City Living, and Gray Media\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-629400","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\/629400","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=629400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}