{"id":4466,"date":"2013-08-21T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:01:54","slug":"jason-heyward-taken-to-hospital-after-getting-hit-in-face-by-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/21\/jason-heyward-taken-to-hospital-after-getting-hit-in-face-by-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Heyward taken to hospital after getting hit in face by pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2164\" alt=\"jasonheyward\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jasonheyward.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jasonheyward.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/jasonheyward-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward was taken to a hospital after being hit in the face with a pitch in Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the sixth inning of Wednesday&#8217;s game. Mets pitcher Jon Niese was on the mound and threw a pitch which hit Heyward in the face. The pitch did not appear to be intentional and both Mets catcher John Buck and home plate umpired Greg Gibson went to Heyward&#8217;s aid.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/uploads\/heywardballface.gif\" width=\"560\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2013\/08\/watch-jason-heyward-get-hit-in-the-face-on-scary-pitch\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY FTW<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Jason Heyward, hit by a pitch on his right jaw, has been taken to a local hospital for more examination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/statuses\/370261802807853057\">August 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heyward was taken off the field and into the clubhouse. He was later transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward was taken to a hospital after being hit in the face with a pitch in Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New York Mets. The incident occurred in the sixth inning of Wednesday&#8217;s game. Mets pitcher Jon Niese was on the mound and threw a pitch which hit Heyward in the face. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}