{"id":6900,"date":"2014-03-27T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2014-03-27T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T02:45:55","slug":"nelson-cruzs-ct-scan-comes-back-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/27\/nelson-cruzs-ct-scan-comes-back-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Cruz&#8217;s CT scan comes back clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/nelsoncruz.jpg\" alt=\"nelsoncruz\" width=\"662\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6901\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/nelsoncruz.jpg 662w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/nelsoncruz-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><br \/>\nResults of a CT scan on Baltimore Orioles designated hitter Nelson Cruz has come back clean.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz took a pitch off his helmet in Thursday&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay. The pitch was a slow breaking ball and he scan was considered precautionary.<\/p>\n<p>After being hit Cruz was able to stand back up before being attended to by team trainers. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cruz CT scan came back clean. He&#39;s fine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Orioles&amp;src=hash\">#Orioles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masnRoch\/statuses\/449369918904221696\">March 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cruz will look to showcase himself for a full season after missing 50 games last year following a suspension for PEDs. In 109 games last year he hit .266\/.327\/.506 with 27 home runs and 76 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>This spring Cruz has hit .289\/.372\/.447 in 13 contests. All signs point to Cruz being a pivotal point of the Orioles this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Orioles release Alfredo Aceves<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Orioles have also released relief pitcher Alfredo Aceves. After he Orioles informed Aceves that he had lost out on the final bullpen spot the right hander exercised his opt-out clause. He will now look to latch on elsewhere but finding a major league deal is no guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>Aceves appeared in 11 games last season making six starts for the Boston Red Sox. He compiled a 4.86 ERA and a 1.73 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of a CT scan on Baltimore Orioles designated hitter Nelson Cruz has come back clean. Cruz took a pitch off his helmet in Thursday&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay. The pitch was a slow breaking ball and he scan was considered precautionary. After being hit Cruz was able to stand back up before being attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,501,523],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nelson-cruz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","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=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6904,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}