{"id":774453,"date":"2026-08-09T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774453\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T21:36:20","slug":"rays-place-right-hander-griffin-jax-on-injured-list-with-elbow-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/774453\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays place right-hander Griffin Jax on injured list with elbow discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays placed pitcher Griffin Jax on the 15-day injured list Sunday with right elbow discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>The move, retroactive to Thursday, comes a day after Jax was scratched from his scheduled start against the Seattle Mariners. Reliever Casey Legumina made the start instead, as the Rays employed a bullpen day in their 3-2 win over Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old right-hander has appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jaxgr01.shtml\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29 games this season,<\/a> with 18 starts, and is 6-9 with a 3.63 ERA and 100 strikeouts and 30 walks.<\/p>\n<p>Rays manager Kevin Cash said Saturday that initial tests indicated Jax\u2019s injury wasn\u2019t ligament related, and that he was already showing improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going to go see a doctor (Monday) and we\u2019ll probably know Wednesday or Thursday on something,\u201d Cash said. \u201cHe feels better today, which is very encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RHP Michael Grove was recalled from Triple-A Durham to replace Jax on the active roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rays placed pitcher Griffin Jax on the 15-day injured list Sunday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4811,6439,95485,5723,7908,4,9501,9496,22871,83366,297,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-774453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baseball","tag-casey-legumina","tag-griffin-jax","tag-griffin-jax-rays-il-elbow","tag-kevin-cash","tag-michael-grove","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117067709397629741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774453","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=774453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}