{"id":4469,"date":"2013-08-21T20:06:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2013-08-21T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:11:08","slug":"jason-heyward-out-4-6-weeks-with-fractured-jaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/21\/jason-heyward-out-4-6-weeks-with-fractured-jaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Heyward out 4-6 weeks with fractured jaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/20130821-200243.jpg\" alt=\"20130821-200243.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nAtlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward will miss the next4-6 weeks with a fractured jaw. <\/p>\n<p>Heyward was hit in the sixth inning by a pitch from New York Mets starter Jonathan Niese. <\/p>\n<p>The news of Heywards injury was first reported by MLB&#8217;s Mark Bowman. <\/p>\n<p>It marks the second substantial injury for the Braves in a game against the Mets this year. Pitcher Tim Hudson had his ankle broken when Mets outfielder Eric Young landed on his foot on a play at first base on July 24. <\/p>\n<p>Watch Heyward being HBP below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/uploads\/heywardballface.gif\" width=\"560\" height=\"313\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Heyward had missed time earlier in the year after undergoing an appendectomy. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Heyward was hitting .253 with 13 home runs and 37 RBI on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward will miss the next4-6 weeks with a fractured jaw. Heyward was hit in the sixth inning by a pitch from New York Mets starter Jonathan Niese. The news of Heywards injury was first reported by MLB&#8217;s Mark Bowman. It marks the second substantial injury for the Braves in a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4469","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\/4469","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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}