CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The Chicago Cubs placed reliever Gavin Hollowell on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder inflammation before their 2-0 loss to the New York Yankees on Friday and recalled left-hander Antoine Kelly from Triple-A Iowa.<\/p>\n
Manager Craig Counsell said injured closer Daniel Palencia will throw a live bullpen session in Chicago on Saturday and is nearing a return. Palencia, who led the Cubs last season with 22 saves, has been out since June 16 with a mild right elbow flexor strain.<\/p>\n
Hallowell\u2019s injury flared during the Cubs’ series in St. Louis earlier this week. He has a 2.51 ERA over 14 1\/3 innings in 14 games this season, striking out 13 and walking eight while not factoring into a decision.<\/p>\n
Kelly made his major league debut against New York on Friday, entering in the eighth to get the final four outs while allowing no hits, striking out one and walking one. The 26-year-old from suburban Park Ridge, Illinois was 1-1 with a 2.79 ERA in 19 1\/3 innings over 13 games with Iowa since the Cubs acquired him for cash from the Dodgers on June 6.<\/p>\n
Palencia has been limited to 19 games and 16 2\/3 innings this season and is 2-1 with a 2.70 ERA and three saves.<\/p>\n
Counsell said that pending the outcome of Palencia\u2019s bullpen session, the righty could move on to a rehab assignment in the minors.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s probably ready to start making appearances in games,\u201d Counsell said. \u201cDaniel\u2019s coming back. He\u2019s throwing live, which means you\u2019re healthy. You\u2019ve just got to build up some volume.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, injured starter Justin Steele, out since April 2025 following Tommy John surgery \u2014 then an April 2026 setback with a left flexor strain \u2014 played catch at Wrigley Field on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cMade like 85 throws today, 80 throws, and then tomorrow do a lot more throws, and then get on the mound for 20 pitches,\u201d Steele said.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old left-hander, however, has no idea when he might resume pitching at some level, even if he said he \u201cfeels good right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust finishing the the protocol or whatever it is that\u2019s in front of me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Steele was an All-Star starter in a breakout 2023 season when he was 16-5 with a 3.06 ERA. Injuries limited him to 24 games in 2024 when he was 5-5 with a 3.07 ERA in 24 games.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Steele pitched just four games with a 3-1 record and 4.76 ERA before he got hurt in an April 7 win over Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The Chicago Cubs placed reliever Gavin Hollowell on the 15-day injured list with right shoulder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[62128,5,138,24,4245,576,161,94810,888,515,393,4,9501,9496,15187,22858,22859,673,5971],"class_list":["post-766896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-antoine-kelly","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-craig-counsell","tag-cubs","tag-cubs-hollowell-palencia-steele-yankees","tag-daniel-palencia","tag-gavin-hollowell","tag-justin-steele","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-st-louis","tag-tommy-john"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117018659655772932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766896","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=766896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}