{"id":691283,"date":"2026-05-05T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/691283\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:00:15","slug":"kolek-returns-from-injured-list-to-make-spot-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/691283\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolek returns from injured list to make spot start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek returns from the injured list Tuesday night to make a spot start for the Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals announced that Kolek would start in Noah Cameron\u2019s place late Monday night, saying Cameron was dealing with lower back tightness that would cause him to miss his would-be seventh start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kolek, a 29-year-old who started the season on the injured list with a left oblique strain, was activated Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a corresponding move, reliever Mason Black was optioned to Triple-A Omaha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Black pitched 4.2 innings and had 5 strikeouts and 0 earned runs for the Royals so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Royals will go for their fifth straight win Tuesday night at 6:40 p.m. CT against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; Kansas City Royals right-hander Stephen Kolek returns from the injured list Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,28944,4,1357,252,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-691283","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-mason-black","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-noah-cameron","17":"tag-royals","18":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116524221996347272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691283","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=691283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}