{"id":2932,"date":"2013-06-01T23:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T03:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2013-06-01T23:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T03:18:42","slug":"stephen-strasburg-mri-reveals-lat-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/01\/stephen-strasburg-mri-reveals-lat-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Strasburg MRI reveals lat strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2252\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2252\" alt=\"stephenstrasburg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/stephenstrasburg1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has a Grade 1 lat strain according to a team trainer Lee Kuntz. Previously it was reported that Strasburg had a strained oblique.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23Nats\">#Nats<\/a> head trainer Lee Kuntz clarifies that MRI of Stephen Strasburg showed a Grade 1 strain of R lat muscle. Doesn&#8217;t change outlook or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Zuckerman (@ZuckermanCSN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZuckermanCSN\/status\/341023753955835905\">June 2, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nationals have classified Strasburg&#8217;s strain as a Grade 1 which bodes well for his chances to pitch next Saturday. Washington could choose to place him on the 15-day disabled list if Strasburg is unable to pitch against the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>On the season Strasburg has a 2.54 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP. In Strasburg&#8217;s four starts before Friday night the Nationals right hander had compiled a 0.96 ERA and a 0.93 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has a Grade 1 lat strain according to a team trainer Lee Kuntz. Previously it was reported that Strasburg had a strained oblique. #Nats head trainer Lee Kuntz clarifies that MRI of Stephen Strasburg showed a Grade 1 strain of R lat muscle. Doesn&#8217;t change outlook or&#8230; &mdash; Mark Zuckerman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[212,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2932","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\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}