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The Kansas City Royals were locked in another tight game Wednesday night against the Cleveland Guardians at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n
This time, the club fell a little short.<\/p>\n
The Royals fell 3-1 to snap their five-game winning streak. And the loss stung in multiple ways.<\/p>\n
Royals starter Cole Ragans left early due to left tricep and elbow soreness. He pitched three scoreless innings before exiting after 58 pitches.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, just bottom of the tricep and back of the elbow,\u201d Ragans said postgame. \u201cJust got a little tight. I\u2019ve been through the elbow stuff. You know, it got to a point where I didn\u2019t feel like I needed to push it anymore. Talked to (Royals pitching coach Brian) Sweeney and all of them. Figured that was the best decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Royals (17-20) quickly warmed up right-hander Luinder Avila. The 24-year-old reliever covered two innings in relief.<\/p>\n
In the fourth inning, Avila surrendered a two-run single to Guardians designated hitter Chase DeLauter. Both runs scored after Cleveland (19-19) executed a double steal to get the runners into scoring position.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean the walk hurt him, you know, and allowing those guys to steal on him,\u201d Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. \u201cAnd he\u2019s got great stuff. Those are the finer points. When you are in a one-run game, you\u2019ve got to be able to execute there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ragans had trouble with his command in the first inning. He walked Guardians duo Angel Martinez and Jose Ramirez in the frame. However, he escaped trouble with three strikeouts to strand both runners.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the ball was coming out good and the stuff was good,\u201d Ragans said of his performance prior to the tightness.<\/p>\n
Ragans retired six of his next eight batters. But his velocity dipped to around 92 mph in the third inning. His last pitch registered 94.3 mph as the Royals retired the side.<\/p>\n
Ragans has dealt with elbow trouble before, but this sensation was different. In his career, he has undergone two Tommy John surgeries.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t felt anything like this,\u201d Ragans said. \u201cI\u2019ve been through the elbow stuff. I know it\u2019s not what I\u2019ve been through before. So we\u2019ll kind of do some other stuff and kind of go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quatraro is hopeful the injury is minor. He said that Ragans alerted the coaching staff after the third inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to be cautious and get him out of there,\u201d Quatraro said. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll get some more evaluations tomorrow and see what we have. We don\u2019t think it\u2019s serious. You know, we\u2019re hopeful for the next start and we\u2019ll see where he is after we evaluate it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Royals never recovered Wednesday evening. Salvador Perez drove in the lone run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.<\/p>\n
Guardians pitchers held the Royals to four hits. KC third baseman Maikel Garcia logged two of the four singles against Cleveland starter Joey Cantillo.<\/p>\n
Cantillo allowed one run over five innings. From there, Guardians relievers Matt Festa, Erik Sabrowski, Hunter Gaddis and Cade Smith allowed one hit to finish the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he executed his pitches,\u201d Garcia said of Cantillo. \u201cAnd you know, some days it\u2019s the pitcher\u2019s day and some days it\u2019s the offense\u2019s day. So it was not our day. Just move on and focus on tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guardians outfielder David Fry added a key insurance run in the eighth. He recorded an RBI groundout as Ramirez scored.<\/p>\n
The Royals will try to win the series Thursday afternoon. For now, all eyes are on Ragans as he gets a further examination tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s our best pitcher in the rotation,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cAnd you know, hopefully nothing is bad and he can get back on the mound. We need him.\u201d<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next:<\/strong> Royals right-hander Seth Lugo (1-1, 2.68 ERA) will start Thursday\u2019s finale against the Guardians at Kauffman Stadium. He will oppose Guardians righty Slade Cecconi (1-4, 6.56 ERA) with first pitch set for 1:10 p.m. Central.<\/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 www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kansas City Royals were locked in another tight game Wednesday night against the Cleveland Guardians at Kauffman Stadium. This time, the club fell a little short. The Royals fell 3-1 to snap their five-game winning streak. And the loss stung in multiple ways. Royals starter Cole Ragans left early due to left tricep and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2405680,"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":[313221,311239,43627,311235,342882,313842,311274,363932,336209,22091],"class_list":["post-2405679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cole-ragans","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-matt-quatraro","tag-royals-manager","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-the-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Royals-await-update-as-Cole-Ragans-injured-in-Wednesdays-loss.com2Fen2Faol_kansas_city_star_mcclatchy_articles_4202F24ef104b789c4cf8982.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405679","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=2405679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405681,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405679\/revisions\/2405681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}