{"id":2513178,"date":"2026-07-22T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2513178"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:29:00","slug":"steven-cruz-notches-first-career-save-for-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steven-cruz-notches-first-career-save-for-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Cruz notches first career save for Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                Cruz, who stepped in with a two-run lead today after Daniel Lynch IV pitched a scoreless eighth, retired the other three batters he faced in the ninth. Cruz had just two holds in 32 appearances and has mostly worked in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, so it was rather surprising to see him get the ninth today. Alex Lange was unavailable after working the previous two days, but Cruz still got the call over Lucas Erceg and Matt Strahm. Perhaps he\u2019ll be next in line in the ninth if Lange\u2019s inconsistency gets to be too much for the Royals.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '206053216266379',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\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 www.nbcsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruz, who stepped in with a two-run lead today after Daniel Lynch IV pitched a scoreless eighth, retired the other three batters he faced in the ninth. Cruz had just two holds in 32 appearances and has mostly worked in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings, so it was rather surprising to see him get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2513179,"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-2513178","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\/Steven-Cruz-notches-first-career-save-for-Royals.com2Fbrightspot2Ff22F0.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513178","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=2513178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513180,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513178\/revisions\/2513180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}