{"id":6925,"date":"2014-03-28T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2014-03-29T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:03:24","slug":"tim-lincecum-takes-liner-off-leg-exits-spring-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/28\/tim-lincecum-takes-liner-off-leg-exits-spring-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Lincecum takes liner off leg, x-rays negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6926\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/timlincecum.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6926\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/timlincecum.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/timlincecum-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSan Francisco Giants right-handed pitcher Tim Lincecum left his final start of the spring after taking a liner off his left leg.<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum pitched four innings against Oakland but it was a liner off the bat of Daric Barton that forced him from Friday&#8217; game. Second baseman Brandon Hicks picked up the ball after it hit Lincecum and threw Barton out on a close play to end the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner was helped off the field by two trainers but x-rays have come back negative. The Giants have diagnosed him with a left knee contusion according to CSN&#8217;s Andrew Baggarly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Lincecum has a left knee contusion, Giants say. X-rays negative.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Baggarly (@CSNBaggs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSNBaggs\/statuses\/449754327423254529\">March 29, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Lincecum is unable to be ready for the start of the season, the Giants could avoid using a fifth starter until April 19.<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum is looking to improve on his numbers from the last two seasons. In 2013 he was 10-14 with a 4.37 ERA and a 1.32 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum signed a two-year extension worth $35 million in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Giants right-handed pitcher Tim Lincecum left his final start of the spring after taking a liner off his left leg. Lincecum pitched four innings against Oakland but it was a liner off the bat of Daric Barton that forced him from Friday&#8217; game. Second baseman Brandon Hicks picked up the ball after it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,139,14],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-6925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-san-francisco-giants","10":"tag-tim-lincecum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925","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=6925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6925\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6925"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}