{"id":2724,"date":"2013-05-24T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2013-05-24T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:09:40","slug":"nats-reliever-ryan-mattheus-will-miss-4-6-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/24\/nats-reliever-ryan-mattheus-will-miss-4-6-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats reliever Ryan Mattheus will miss 4-6 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2638\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2638\" alt=\"mattheus\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/mattheus.jpg\" width=\"677\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/mattheus.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/mattheus-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The fractured hand which was a result of a punch to his locker will sideline Nationals reliever Ryan Mattheus for 4-6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mattheus will not need surgery but will miss time with his fractured right pitching hand. Once Mattheus&#8217; hand heals he will have to build up arm strength.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Mattheus was a valuable part of the Nationals bullpen but this year he had compiled a 4.96 ERA and a 1.53 WHIP in 11 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fractured hand which was a result of a punch to his locker will sideline Nationals reliever Ryan Mattheus for 4-6 weeks. Mattheus will not need surgery but will miss time with his fractured right pitching hand. Once Mattheus&#8217; hand heals he will have to build up arm strength. Last season Mattheus was a valuable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[342,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ryan-mattheus","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}