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The Kansas City Royals<\/a>‘ path to the 2025 postseason may have hit a snag with starting pitcher Seth Lugo<\/a> going on the 15-day injured list<\/a> with lower back tightness.<\/p>\n Lugo was scheduled to start on Thursday<\/a> versus the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. Noah Cameron<\/a> (7-6, 2.92 ERA) will get the nod in his place.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Going into Thursday’s MLB schedule, the Royals (70-69) are 2.5 games behind<\/a> the Seattle Mariners<\/a> for the American League’s third wild-card playoff spot. (The Texas Rangers<\/a> are ahead of Kansas City by one game at 72-69.)<\/p>\n Lugo, 35, has a 4.15 ERA in 26 starts for the Royals this season, striking out 125 batters in 154 1\/3 innings. He’s been Kansas City’s second-most reliable starter behind Michael Wacha<\/a> in 2025. However, Lugo has struggled in the second half of the season, posting a 7.51 ERA in nine starts (and 9.11 ERA in his six appearances during August).<\/p>\n Last season, Lugo finished as the runner-up in AL Cy Young Award voting<\/a> after compiling a 3.00 ERA and 16-9 record in 33 starts. He threw 206 2\/3 innings, striking out 181 batters. The Royals signed Lugo to a two-year, $46 million extension<\/a> at the end of July after he was a rumored midseason trade candidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Stephen Kolek<\/a> was called back up from Triple-A Omaha to take Lugo’s spot on the active roster, the team announced<\/a>. The second-year right-hander was acquired by Kansas City at the trade deadline from the San Diego Padres<\/a>.<\/p>\n In his lone appearance for the Royals earlier this season, Kolek allowed one run and four hits over six innings in a 3-1 win<\/a> over the Detroit Tigers<\/a>. At Omaha, he registered a 6.63 ERA in five starts with 20 strikeouts in 19 innings. With the Padres, Kolek had a 4.52 ERA in 14 starts with a strikeout rate of 6.3 batters per nine innings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kansas City Royals‘ path to the 2025 postseason may have hit a snag with starting pitcher Seth Lugo going on the 15-day injured list with lower back tightness. Lugo was scheduled to start on Thursday versus the Los Angeles Angels. Noah Cameron (7-6, 2.92 ERA) will get the nod in his place. Advertisement Going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[345193,310650,43627,357718,311237,314825,347943,326780,244474,347944,307792,22091],"class_list":["post-1997768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-michael-wacha","tag-noah-cameron","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-texas-rangers","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Royals-pitcher-Seth-Lugo-goes-on-15-day-IL-with-lower.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}