{"id":2905,"date":"2013-05-31T22:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-05-31T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T03:03:31","slug":"stephen-strasburg-leaves-start-against-braves-after-two-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/31\/stephen-strasburg-leaves-start-against-braves-after-two-innings\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Strasburg leaves start against Braves after two innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2910\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2910\" alt=\"stephenstrasburgs\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/stephenstrasburgs.jpg\" width=\"679\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/stephenstrasburgs.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/stephenstrasburgs-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stephen Strasburg can not survive Atlanta. On Friday night the Washington Nationals pitcher left after two innings with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander grimaced after throwing a changeup to Brian McCann, the sixth batter he faced, with one out in the second inning Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Strasburg retired McCann on a ground ball and struck out Dan Uggla to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals replaced Strasburg with Craig Stammen to begin the third inning.<\/p>\n<p>Officially the Nationals have listed Strasburg as having a strained right oblique. Considering the injury it is likely that Strasburg lands on the disabled list much like <a title=\"Diamondbacks place Eric Chavez on DL\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/31\/diamondbacks-place-eric-chavez-on-dl\/\">Eric Chavez<\/a> did earlier today for the same injury.<\/p>\n<p>Strasburg had turned it on of late. Over his last three outings Strasburg was 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA. Including Friday nights numbers Strasburg has a 2.54 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP this year.<\/p>\n<p>In his last appearance in Atlanta, on April 29, Strasburg suffered forearm tightness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Strasburg can not survive Atlanta. On Friday night the Washington Nationals pitcher left after two innings with a back injury. The right-hander grimaced after throwing a changeup to Brian McCann, the sixth batter he faced, with one out in the second inning Friday night. Strasburg retired McCann on a ground ball and struck out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[212,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-stephen-strasburg","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}