{"id":2508911,"date":"2026-07-20T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2508911"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:11:08","slug":"royals-rhp-stephen-kolek-flexor-hurt-on-rehab-assignment-placed-on-il-102-7-wbow-the-valleys-greatest-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-rhp-stephen-kolek-flexor-hurt-on-rehab-assignment-placed-on-il-102-7-wbow-the-valleys-greatest-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals RHP Stephen Kolek (flexor) hurt on rehab assignment, placed on IL | 102.7 WBOW | The Valley&#8217;s Greatest Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Stephen Kolek on the 15-day injured list on Sunday after he strained his right flexor during a rehab start.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek was injured on Saturday while pitching for Triple-A Omaha \u200bto get him ready to return to the major league squad as \u200csoon as this week after an extended absence on the family medical emergency list.<\/p>\n<p>He was scheduled for four innings or 65 pitches but made it through only 51 pitches (30 strikes) over 2 2\/3 innings against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs before he exited in the third inning with the \u200cOmaha \u200bStorm Chasers\u2019 trainer.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek allowed two runs on six hits \u2060with a hit batter, no \u2060walks and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he didn\u2019t feel great playing catch, but then as he got on the mound, he felt better,\u201d Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said Sunday. \u201cThe first couple of innings were pretty good. In the third \u200binning, he felt more aggressive discomfort. They thought it was best to get him out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kolek, 29, is scheduled to get imaging done on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He \u2060last pitched in a major league game on \u2060July 2, allowing three runs on four hits in two \u200binnings of a 5-2 home loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek has been away from \u200bthe team since before the birth of his daughter, Faye, who \u200cwas born seven weeks premature on June 25, MLB.com reported. He has been in the hospital with his wife, Jessica, and their baby, leaving only for that July 2 start. The Royals placed him on the family emergency medical list three times \u2060and the paternity list twice as well as the restricted list on July 11, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>With his child making progress, Kolek planned to return to the Royals, including \u2060Saturday\u2019s rehab start. Major \u200cLeague Baseball gave the Royals permission for Kolek to have \u2060a rehab assignment, which is not the norm for players \u200bon \u200cthe restricted list.<\/p>\n<p>Kolek is 4-3 with one shutout, a 4.50 \u200bERA, 12 \u2060walks and 34 strikeouts in 54 innings over 10 starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>He is a career 12-10 with a 4.13 ERA, 55 walks and 150 strikeouts in 213 1\/3 innings over 71 games (29 starts) for the San Diego Padres (2024-25) and Royals (2025-present). The Padres traded Kolek and right-hander Ryan Bergert to the Royals for catcher Freddy Fermin on July \u200b31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\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 1027wbow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Stephen Kolek on the 15-day injured list on Sunday after he strained his right flexor during a rehab start. Kolek was injured on Saturday while pitching for Triple-A Omaha \u200bto get him ready to return to the major league squad as \u200csoon as this week after an extended absence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2508903,"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-2508911","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\/07\/Royals-RHP-Stephen-Kolek-flexor-hurt-on-rehab-assignment-placed.JPG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508911","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=2508911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508912,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508911\/revisions\/2508912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}