Cody Ponce left his first start as a Toronto Blue Jay on a cart in the third inning after appearing to sustain a leg injury.<\/p>\n
The right-hander was making his first MLB start since 2021 and went down in the top of the third with one out while attempting to field a ground ball off the bat of Jake McCarthy<\/a>. He was attended to by the training staff and eventually limped to a cart, which drove him off the field.<\/p>\n The Rockies scored a run on the play as McCarthy\u2019s slow grounder cashed Kyle Karros<\/a> from third base, making it 1-0. Right-hander Louis Varland<\/a> came on in relief of Ponce and got out of the inning to preserve the one-run deficit.<\/p>\n The 31-year-old Ponce was signed to a three-year, $30 million deal by Toronto this past winter after winning the MVP award last year in the Korea Baseball Organization. He was 17-1 with a 1.89 ERA in 29 starts last season for the Hanwha Eagles.<\/p>\n He had a 0.66 ERA this spring in five outings with 12 strikeouts in 13.2 innings pitched.<\/p>\n Ponce began his MLB career with the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitched parts of 2020 and 2021 before heading to Japan and then eventually Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Ponce left his first start as a Toronto Blue Jay on a cart in the third inning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,4,282,70,46737,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-653484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238","16":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116320862604426698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653484","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=653484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}