{"id":2453960,"date":"2026-06-11T04:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2453960"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T04:07:40","slug":"royals-lugo-leaves-after-getting-hit-in-forehead-by-line-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-lugo-leaves-after-getting-hit-in-forehead-by-line-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Lugo leaves after getting hit in forehead by line d\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Kansas City Royals right-hander Seth Lugo left Wednesday&#8217;s start against the Texas Rangers after being hit in the forehead by Brandon Nimmo&#8217;s 107-mph line drive.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo fell to the ground and quickly developed a gigantic welt on his forehead, though he managed to get up and walk off the field under his own power after being checked by trainers. Nimmo, who was credited with a single after the ball caromed into right field, immediately ran to the mound to make sure Lugo &#8211; his former New York Mets teammate &#8211; was OK.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/m\/seth-lugo-exits-game-after-apparent-injury?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>(Video source: MLB.com)<\/p>\n<p>The Royals later <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Royals\/status\/2064887366020427976\">announced<\/a> that Lugo was &#8220;doing well&#8221; and would &#8220;undergo the appropriate protocol and testing.&#8221; They didn&#8217;t offer a specific update on the extent of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Lugo, 36, owns a 3.86 ERA and 1.35 WHIP with 66 strikeouts across 14 starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Black entered the game in relief of Lugo and ultimately allowed Nimmo to score when he issued a bases-loaded walk to Evan Carter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source thescore.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals right-hander Seth Lugo left Wednesday&#8217;s start against the Texas Rangers after being hit in the forehead by Brandon Nimmo&#8217;s 107-mph line drive. Lugo fell to the ground and quickly developed a gigantic welt on his forehead, though he managed to get up and walk off the field under his own power after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2453961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Royals-Lugo-leaves-after-getting-hit-in-forehead-by-line.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453960","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=2453960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453962,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453960\/revisions\/2453962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}