Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals placed outfielder Lorenzo Cain on the 15-day disabled list prior to Thursday’s game against the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n
Cain exited Wednesday’s 6-4 win over the Astros in the 10th inning after straining his left groin. The 28-year-old was off to a strong start this season, hitting a team-best .333 (14-of-42) with five RBI while starting 12 of the Royals’ 13 games in center field.<\/p>\n
Left-handed pitcher Justin Marks was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to fill the available roster spot.<\/p>\n
Marks made one start and a pair of relief appearances for the Storm Chasers prior to Thursday’s promotion, allowing seven runs — three earned — and five walks with eight strikeouts over 8 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – The Kansas City Royals placed outfielder Lorenzo Cain on the 15-day disabled list prior to Thursday’s game against the Houston Astros. Cain exited Wednesday’s 6-4 win over the Astros in the 10th inning after straining his left groin. The 28-year-old was off to a strong start this season, hitting a team-best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}