{"id":4782,"date":"2013-09-24T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2013-09-24T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:35:05","slug":"manny-machado-diagnosed-with-torn-medial-patella-ligament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/24\/manny-machado-diagnosed-with-torn-medial-patella-ligament\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Machado diagnosed with torn medial patella ligament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4783\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4783\" alt=\"Source: Patrick Smith\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/mannymachadog.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/mannymachadog.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/mannymachadog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Patrick Smith\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been diagnosed with a torn medial patellar ligament in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>Machado, 21, was <a title=\"Manny Machado suffers horrific knee injury\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/23\/manny-machado-suffers-horrific-knee-injury\/\">injured while running<\/a> out a single on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles will be without Machado to finish the season but the good news is that he will be ready to go in 6-8 weeks which means he should be more than fine for the start of spring training. Oriole fans will breathe a sigh of relief knowning that Machado&#8217;s ACL and MCL are both intact.<\/p>\n<p>Machado finishes the season with a .283\/.314\/.432 batting line with 14 homers, 71 RBI and 51 doubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been diagnosed with a torn medial patellar ligament in his left knee. Machado, 21, was injured while running out a single on Tuesday. The Orioles will be without Machado to finish the season but the good news is that he will be ready to go in 6-8 weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,478],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-manny-machado"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}