{"id":12041,"date":"2020-03-19T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12041"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:07:39","slug":"chris-sale-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2020\/03\/19\/chris-sale-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12042\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-696x392.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-1068x601.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale-747x420.jpg 747w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2020\/03\/chrissale.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery reports Ken Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>The news about sale, 30, comes a day after he threw at Red Sox came in Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RedSox<\/a> just announced Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1240745120493899776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sale was hoping to be on the mound this season and his throwing yesterday was seen as a step forward following being diagnosed with a flexor strain at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Neal ElAttrache had recommended Sale take the rest and rehab route initially.<\/p>\n<p>Sale appeared in 25 games last season going 6-11 with a 4.40 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery reports Ken Rosenthal. The news about sale, 30, comes a day after he threw at Red Sox came in Fort Myers, Florida. #RedSox just announced Chris Sale will undergo Tommy John surgery. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) March 19, 2020 Sale was hoping to be on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,229,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-chris-sale","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12043,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12041\/revisions\/12043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12041"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}