SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek will be sidelined at least 5 to 7 days, and that could be longer depending on the severity of a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n
Royals manager Matt Quatraro said Thursday that the team hopes the issue isn’t too serious. Kolek was getting another scan to figure out the extent of the injury.<\/p>\n
kAmz@=6< H2D H2C>:?8 FA (65?6D52J 7@C H92E H2D D4965F=65 E@ 36 EH@ :??:?8D \ud83d\ude15 2? 6I9:3:E:@? 82>6 282:?DE $62EE=6 H96? 96 76=E E:89E?6DD \ud83d\ude15 9:D =67E D:56] xE H2D DFAA@D65 E@ 36 E96 D64@?5 2AA62C2?46 E9:D DAC:?8 7@C E96 ag\\J62C\\@=5 A:E496C E96 #@J2=D k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^2CE:4=6^<2?D2D\\4:EJ\\C@J2=D\\EC256\\5625=:?6\\fhc3_7ag`24a66a2a2`ea`d6d56f3g3eQm8@E 7C@> $2? s:68@ \ud83d\ude15 2 5625=:?6 EC256k^2m =2DE DF>>6C 2?5 \ud83d\ude00 6IA64E65 E@ 4@?E6?5 7@C 2 C@E2E:@? DA@E]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmx? 9:D DAC:?8 563FE =2DE uC:52J[ z@=6< 2==@H65 @?6 CF? 2?5 E9C66 9:ED @G6C EH@ :??:?8D 282:?DE %6I2D] w6 DECF4< @FE EH@ 2?5 H2=<65 @?6 H9:=6 E9C@H:?8 a_ @7 be A:E496D 7@C DEC:<6D]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmz@=6< H6?E `\\a H:E9 2 `]h` t#p \ud83d\ude15 7:G6 DE2CED 7@C E96 #@J2=D =2DE D62D@?[ H96? 96 E9C6H bb :??:?8D 7@C E96>] w6 925 8@?6 c\\d H:E9 2 c]`g t#p \ud83d\ude15 `c DE2CED 7@C E96 !25C6D 367@C6 96 H2D EC2565 H:E9 #J2? q6C86CE \ud83d\ude15 2 562= E92E D6?E 42E496C uC655J u6C>:? E@ $2? s:68@]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmw6 >256 9:D 3:8 =628F6 563FE \ud83d\ude15 a_ac H:E9 E96 !25C6D[ 8@:?8 b\\_ H:E9 2 d]a` t#p \ud83d\ude15 ca C6=:67 2AA62C2?46D]k^Am<\/p>\n
k9C ^m<\/p>\n
kAmp! |{qi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^9F3^>=3Qm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^9F3^>=3k^2mk^Am<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek will be sidelined at least 5 to 7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,3618,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-595899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-national_sports","16":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116142196955277181","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}