{"id":687862,"date":"2026-05-01T21:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687862\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:36:22","slug":"orioles-closer-ryan-helsley-heads-to-injured-list-with-elbow-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687862\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles closer Ryan Helsley heads to injured list with elbow inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"text-container\">NEW YORK \u2014 The Orioles will be without their closing pitching for this series against the Yankees. Right-hander Ryan Helsley was placed on the 15-day injured list with right elbow inflammation. <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">The Orioles selected the contract of right-hander Albert Su\u00e1rez, who had his new minor league deal approved by MLB only a few hours ago.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Helsley\u2019s injury designation is retroactive to Wednesday. He pitched a clean ninth inning Tuesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/orioles-mlb\/orioles-win-astros-5-3-GGBAPPNBK5D5ZLYSMBNJFTWKDQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thebanner.com\/sports\/orioles-mlb\/orioles-win-astros-5-3-GGBAPPNBK5D5ZLYSMBNJFTWKDQ\/\">a win against the Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">Since joining this offseason, Helsley has been a lockdown force at the back end of the bullpen. He\u2019s 7-for-7 in save attempts.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"text-container\">This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The Orioles will be without their closing pitching for this series against the Yankees. Right-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,39604,47,2538,5,1404,4,12212,23849,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-687862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-city","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-camden-yards","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-os","16":"tag-opacy","17":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116501478349791362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687862","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=687862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}