{"id":3929,"date":"2013-07-26T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T20:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2013-07-26T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T20:13:57","slug":"pirates-jason-grilli-out-for-4-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/26\/pirates-jason-grilli-out-for-4-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Jason Grilli out for 4-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-vghaUUEl27k\/UaKKiGx-IhI\/AAAAAAAAAsY\/41QEWq7uHv4\/s1600\/Grilli.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates closer Jason Grilli will not be returning to the mound anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p>Grilli was placed on the 15-day DL on July 23 after he was forced to exit the game the night before after suffering an apparent arm injury.<\/p>\n<p>Grilli has been diagnosed with a strained right flexor tendon and will be out 4-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The diagnosis came from Dr. James Andrews. Grilli does not need surgery at this time, but he will be re-evaluated in 10-14 days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously a big blow for the Pirates, who have the second-best winning percentage in baseball behind the Cardinals. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Melancon will continue to close while Grilli is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates closer Jason Grilli will not be returning to the mound anytime soon. Grilli was placed on the 15-day DL on July 23 after he was forced to exit the game the night before after suffering an apparent arm injury. Grilli has been diagnosed with a strained right flexor tendon and will be out [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3929","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\/3929","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=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}