{"id":2858,"date":"2013-05-30T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2013-05-30T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:03:43","slug":"umpire-takes-foul-ball-to-the-groin-in-raysmarlins-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/30\/umpire-takes-foul-ball-to-the-groin-in-raysmarlins-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Umpire takes foul ball to the groin in Rays\/Marlins game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2859\" alt=\"umpirenuts\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/umpirenuts.gif\" width=\"560\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catchers gear has long been called the <em>tools of ignorance<\/em> but here is hoping that one MLB Umpire wore a little extra equipment on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Umpire Alan Porter received a foul ball to the groin during the Tampa Bay Rays game against the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth inning Evan Longoria fouled off a ball from Marlins pitcher Tom Koehler. The ball skipped off the dirt and went straight for Porter&#8217;s crotch.<\/p>\n<p>And of course a H\/T to @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CorkGaines\/status\/339884746383446016\" target=\"_blank\">corkgaines <\/a>for the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catchers gear has long been called the tools of ignorance but here is hoping that one MLB Umpire wore a little extra equipment on Wednesday night. Umpire Alan Porter received a foul ball to the groin during the Tampa Bay Rays game against the Miami Marlins. In the fourth inning Evan Longoria fouled off a [&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":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","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=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}