{"id":6639,"date":"2014-03-06T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2014-03-06T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:11:19","slug":"ross-ohlendorf-leaves-game-with-back-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/06\/ross-ohlendorf-leaves-game-with-back-spasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Ohlendorf leaves game with back spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/rossohlendorf.jpg\" alt=\"rossohlendorf\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/rossohlendorf.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/rossohlendorf-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nWashington Nationals pitcher Ross Ohlendorf left Thursday&#8217;s game with back spasms.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nationals manager Matt Williams, the situation began at the beginning of the game. Ohlendorf is being considered an option as a long reliever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Ross Ohlendorf had lower back spasms that started when facing the first batter, per Matt Williams. He&#39;ll be reevaluated in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Wagner (@JamesWagnerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesWagnerWP\/statuses\/441764617677975552\">March 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ohlendorf had been dealing with tightness in his side to start the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Ohlendorf made 16 appearances last season, seven of which were starts. He finished with a 3.28 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP. He could see starts this season should an injury arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals pitcher Ross Ohlendorf left Thursday&#8217;s game with back spasms. According to Nationals manager Matt Williams, the situation began at the beginning of the game. Ohlendorf is being considered an option as a long reliever. Ross Ohlendorf had lower back spasms that started when facing the first batter, per Matt Williams. He&#39;ll be reevaluated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6639","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\/6639","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=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}