{"id":4741,"date":"2013-09-20T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2013-09-20T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:17:22","slug":"braves-activate-jason-heyward-from-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/20\/braves-activate-jason-heyward-from-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves activate Jason Heyward from DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4742\" alt=\"jasonheyward\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have activated outfielder Jason Heyward from the disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward, 24, has not played a game since taking a fastball to the jaw on Aug. 21 from New York Mets pitcher Jon Niese.<\/p>\n<p>The timetable for Heyward&#8217;s return always seemed to suggest he would be back with roughly two weeks remaining in the season but reports from various media members suggested he was a playoff activation at best.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward recently took batting practice for the Braves and was to do the same this weekend in Chicago, where the Braves are at Wrigley Field to play the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH: <\/strong><a title=\"Jason Heyward taken to hospital after getting hit in face by pitch\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/21\/jason-heyward-taken-to-hospital-after-getting-hit-in-face-by-pitch\/\">Heyward takes pitch to jaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead the Braves have went ahead and activated Heyward and placed him as the starting center fielder for Friday afternoons game.<\/p>\n<p>In 95 game this season Heyward has a .253\/.347\/.423 line with 13 home runs and 37 RBI. He missed time earlier this season with an appendectomy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have activated outfielder Jason Heyward from the disabled list. Heyward, 24, has not played a game since taking a fastball to the jaw on Aug. 21 from New York Mets pitcher Jon Niese. The timetable for Heyward&#8217;s return always seemed to suggest he would be back with roughly two weeks remaining in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,307],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-jason-heyward"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}