MILWAUKEE (AP) — The San Francisco Giants' pitching staff took a couple of major hits Tuesday with left-hander Robbie Ray and right-hander Jordan Hicks going on the 15-day injured list.
Ray has a left hamstring strain, and Hicks has right shoulder inflammation. Ray's move to the injured list was retroactive to Monday.
Ray had started the Giants’ 4-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday, but left before the fourth inning due to hamstring tightness.
“I think he caught it at the right time and didn’t try to push it, but hamstrings are hamstrings,” San Francisco manager Bob Melvin said before the Giants' Tuesday night game with the Milwaukee Brewers. “You’re probably looking at a minimum of a couple of weeks.”
Melvin said Hicks had been dealing with his shoulder issues for some time.
Hicks, who signed a four-year, $44 million contract with the Giants in the offseason, began the year in San Francisco's rotation after working primarily as a reliever beforehand. He moved back into the bullpen earlier this summer.
“He’s had some shoulder stuff going on,” Melvin said. “It just hasn’t really responded since he’s been in the bullpen. He’d pitch a game, and then the next day it’s a little stiff and (he's) not available. It just got to a point where we need to get it right. It’s going to take an IL stint probably to get it completely right. Hopefully after that, he feels a lot better. He's been kind of dealing with this for a little while now.”
Hicks is 4-7 with a 3.90 ERA this season in 28 appearances, including 20 starts.
Ray, who won the 2021 AL Cy Young Award while pitching for Toronto, is 3-2 with a 4.70 ERA in seven starts since coming back a month ago from Tommy John surgery. He underwent the surgery in May 2023 and pitched in just one game last year.
He has struck out 43 batters over 30 2/3 innings this season.
In other moves Tuesday, the Giants recalled right-handers Austin Warren and Landen Roupp from Triple-A Sacramento. Also, catcher Jakson Reetz cleared waivers and was sent outright to Sacramento.
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Jordan Hicks celebrates after the Giants defeated the Chicago White Sox in a baseball game in San Francisco, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Robbie Ray throws against the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Robbie Ray (23) is checked by a trainer and later left with an injury during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Robbie Ray, third from left, is checked by a trainer and later left with an injury during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian oil, a warning that came after planned talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program were postponed.
Trump wrote on social media that “All purchases of Iranian Oil, or Petrochemical products, must stop, NOW!” He said any country or person who buys those products from Iran will not be able to do business with the United States.
The threat came after Oman announced planned nuclear negotiations for this coming weekend had been postponed. A message online from Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi made the announcement in a post on the social platform X.
“For logistical reasons we are rescheduling the US Iran meeting provisionally planned for Saturday May 3rd,” he wrote. “New dates will be announced when mutually agreed.”
Al-Busaidi, who has mediated the talks through three rounds so far, did not elaborate.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei issued a statement describing the talks as being “postponed at the request of Oman’s foreign minister.” He said Iran remain committed to reaching ”a fair and lasting agreement."
Meanwhile, a person familiar with the U.S. negotiators said that America “had never confirmed its participation” in a fourth round of talks in Rome. However, the person said the U.S. expected the talks to occur “in the near future.” The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.
Rome soon will see the Vatican begin the conclave on Wednesday to pick a new pope after the death of Pope Francis. Two other rounds of talks have been held in Muscat, the capital of Oman.
The talks seek to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the U.S. has imposed on the Islamic Republic closing in on a half-century of enmity. The negotiations have been led by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s program if a deal isn’t reached. Iranian officials increasingly warn that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.
Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers did limit Tehran’s program. However, Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in 2018, setting in motion years of attacks and tensions. The wider Middle East also remains on edge over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues an airstrike campaign, called “Operation Rough Rider,” that has been targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels, who long have been backed by Iran. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth early Thursday warned Iran over the rebels.
“Message to IRAN: We see your LETHAL support to The Houthis. We know exactly what you are doing,” he wrote. “You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned. You will pay the CONSEQUENCE at the time and place of our choosing.”
Last Saturday's round of talks, which included experts drilling down into the details of a possible deal, also took place as an explosion rocked an Iranian port, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 1,000 others.
Associated Press writers Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
