{"id":669717,"date":"2026-04-08T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:58:14","slug":"rays-rhp-drew-rasmussen-late-scratch-vs-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669717\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen late scratch vs. Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Drew Rasmussen will not \u200bstart Tuesday\u2019s home game \u200cagainst the Chicago Cubs after his wife went into early labor.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmussen, 30, had been \u200cscheduled \u200bto make \u2060his third start \u2060of the season after he fashioned a 1.80 ERA in 10 combined innings \u200bover the first two outings.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays are \u2060expected to cover \u2060Tuesday\u2019s game with \u200ba bullpen day as right- \u200bhander Mason Englert will be \u200cthe probable starter, the Tampa Bay Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In seven major league seasons, \u2060Rasmussen is 30-17 with a 2.87 ERA in 132 appearances (83 starts) \u2060for \u200cthe Milwaukee Brewers (2020-21) \u2060and the Rays. \u200bHe \u200cwas an American Leage \u200bAll-Star \u2060for the first time last season when he went 10-5 with a 2.76 ERA in 31 starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Field Level Media Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Drew Rasmussen will not \u200bstart Tuesday\u2019s home game \u200cagainst the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-669717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampabay","14":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116367557783078969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669717","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=669717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}