St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – An illness that Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Joel Peralta sustained during the All-Star break has landed the veteran reliever on the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n
The Rays believe that Peralta, who did not pitch in the Rays’ three-game series against Minnesota this past weekend while battling a fever and joint pain, acquired the Chikungunya virus from a mosquito bite when he returned to his native Dominican Republic for the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
Peralta is expected to be healthy once eligible to return from the DL, with Tampa Bay backdating the stint to July 13.<\/p>\n
The durable right-hander owns a 2-3 record with a 4.15 earned run average in 43 appearances this season. Peralta has pitched in at least 71 games in each of the previous three campaigns.<\/p>\n
Pitcher Jeff Beliveau was recalled from Triple-A Durham to fill the roster spot. The left-hander had a pair of scoreless one-inning outings with the Rays back in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) – An illness that Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Joel Peralta sustained during the All-Star break has landed the veteran reliever on the 15-day disabled list. The Rays believe that Peralta, who did not pitch in the Rays’ three-game series against Minnesota this past weekend while battling a fever and joint pain, […]<\/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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-21186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186","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=21186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}