{"id":671168,"date":"2026-04-08T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671168\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:32:17","slug":"royals-ragans-expects-to-make-next-start-after-early-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671168\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Ragans expects to make next start after early exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> ace <a data-player-guid=\"5b245474-0b1d-854e-10eb-1f70b7902e6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41054\/cole-ragans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Ragans<\/a> said he expects to make his next start after exiting Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401814859\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-2 loss<\/a> to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander was struck on the left thumb by a 92.4 mph comebacker from <a data-player-guid=\"ec9ea93f-b7c3-b30e-53a6-694d294e3438\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32801\/jose-ramirez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Ramirez<\/a> and exited two batters later.<\/p>\n<p>Tests revealed no fractures, as Ragans was diagnosed with just a thumb contusion &#8212; a relief for a Royals team that dropped to 5-7 with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a little stiff, obviously, wore it directly off the hand,&#8221; Ragans said, according to MLB.com. &#8220;But, you know, should be good to go (for my next start).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ragans was charged with three runs in 2\/3 of an inning. He&#8217;s now 0-3 on the season with a 5.91 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals ace Cole Ragans said he expects to make his next start after exiting Wednesday&#8217;s 10-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-671168","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-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371701997205224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671168","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=671168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}