Yordano Ventura, starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, has been placed on the team\u2019s 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 13th, after being removed from Kansas City\u2019s game against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 12th.<\/p>\n
Ventura was removed from the game after just three innings because three of his fingers went numb. He was initially diagnosed with \u201chand weakness\u201d, but Ventura was later determined to be suffering from an ulnar nerve condition<\/a>, a problem in which hand surgeon<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Pruzansky has special expertise.<\/p>\n \u201cIt didn\u2019t make any sense to try and push through this thing right now,\u201d Royals manager Ned Yost said about the injury. \u201cThis is something that if you continue to battle through it, it can get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n Ventura is 3\u20136 with a 4.68 ERA in 12 starts during the 2015 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yordano Ventura, starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, has been placed on the team\u2019s 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 13th, after being removed from Kansas City\u2019s game against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 12th. Ventura was removed from the game after just three innings because three of his fingers went numb. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}