{"id":6666,"date":"2014-03-08T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2014-03-08T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:23:34","slug":"matt-kemp-getting-closer-to-game-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/08\/matt-kemp-getting-closer-to-game-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Kemp getting closer to game action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6667\" style=\"width: 1807px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkemp.jpg\" alt=\"creative commons\" width=\"1807\" height=\"1205\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkemp.jpg 1807w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkemp-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/mattkemp-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1807px) 100vw, 1807px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">creative commons<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLos Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said on Saturday that outfielder Matt Kemp is getting close to returning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing him take fly balls, getting jumps,&#8221; said Mattingly. &#8220;He&#8217;s swinging the bat good. It won&#8217;t be long before he&#8217;s in a game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen as to whether or not Kemp plays prior to the Dodgers heading to Australia to open the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Don Mattingly said Matt Kemp is getting close to playing in a game.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kengurnick\/statuses\/442442947863142400\">March 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kemp has slowly been working his way back from October ankle surgery. <\/p>\n<p>In 73 games last season Kemp hit .270\/.328\/.395 with six home runs and 33 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said on Saturday that outfielder Matt Kemp is getting close to returning. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeing him take fly balls, getting jumps,&#8221; said Mattingly. &#8220;He&#8217;s swinging the bat good. It won&#8217;t be long before he&#8217;s in a game.&#8221; It remains to be seen as to whether or not Kemp plays prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,135,248,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-matt-kemp","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","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=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}