{"id":2855,"date":"2013-05-29T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2013-05-29T21:35:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T01:35:31","slug":"kris-medlen-leaves-game-with-calf-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/29\/kris-medlen-leaves-game-with-calf-contusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kris Medlen leaves game with calf contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1606\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606\" alt=\"krismedlen\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/krismedlen.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/krismedlen.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/krismedlen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves do not expect starting pitcher Kris Medlen to miss his next start. Medlen was hit in the left leg by a comebacker in the second inning on Wednesday night against Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen never returned to the mound in the third inning and the Braves declared the right hander out with a upper calf contusion.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to exiting he allowed three runs on four hits and a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen was 10-1 in 2012 but the Braves have struggled in his starts this season. Despite all this Medlen has a 3.48 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP. He will seek to improve those numbers on Monday against Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves do not expect starting pitcher Kris Medlen to miss his next start. Medlen was hit in the left leg by a comebacker in the second inning on Wednesday night against Toronto. Medlen never returned to the mound in the third inning and the Braves declared the right hander out with a upper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,10],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-kris-medlen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}