{"id":2814,"date":"2013-05-27T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2013-05-27T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:37:00","slug":"mri-shows-no-structural-damage-to-knee-of-bryce-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/27\/mri-shows-no-structural-damage-to-knee-of-bryce-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"MRI shows no structural damage to knee of Bryce Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2815\" style=\"width: 673px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2815\" alt=\"bryceharper\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/bryceharper.jpg\" width=\"673\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/bryceharper.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/bryceharper-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bryce Harper will miss Monday&#8217;s game against the Orioles but a MRI on the outfielders knee showed no structural damage. Harper aggravated his left knee when he slid head first into second base on Sunday. He later fouled a ball off his knee.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals plan to keep Harper out of the lineup for a couple of games because they have fear he could further aggravate his knee if he were to play but the teams medical director Wiemi Douoguih said there would be no risk of structural damage if he played according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2013\/05\/27\/bryce-harper-out-with-left-knee-bursitis-nationals-orioles-lineups\/?wp\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no structural injury,\u201d Douoguih said. \u201cIt\u2019s just more time loss because it gets inflamed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals could play Harper as a designated hitter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDH\u2019ing will probably be good for the him. He won\u2019t run into any walls,\u201d manager Davey Johnson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryce Harper will miss Monday&#8217;s game against the Orioles but a MRI on the outfielders knee showed no structural damage. Harper aggravated his left knee when he slid head first into second base on Sunday. He later fouled a ball off his knee. The Nationals plan to keep Harper out of the lineup for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[83,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bryce-harper","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","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=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}