{"id":6945,"date":"2014-03-30T16:33:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2014-03-30T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T20:33:04","slug":"orioles-place-machado-on-dl-markakis-questionable-for-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/30\/orioles-place-machado-on-dl-markakis-questionable-for-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles place Machado on DL, Markakis questionable for opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4979\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4979\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mannymachado2.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mannymachado2.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/mannymachado2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Baltimore Orioles have placed third baseman Manny Machado on the 15-day disabled list to start the season.<\/p>\n<p>Machado has been working his way back from a torn medial patellofemoral ligament in his left knee. Aside from a short shutdown period the recovery for Machado has come along good. He should be able to return to action by the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>Once he returns to action, Machado will look to duplicate his .283\/.314\/.432 line with 14 home runs and 88 runs scored from a season ago.<\/p>\n<p>Another player the Orioles are counting on this season who may not be in the lineup for Opening Day is outfielder Nick Markakis.<\/p>\n<p>Markakis has been dealing with a stiff neck. A decision may not be made until Monday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles have placed third baseman Manny Machado on the 15-day disabled list to start the season. Machado has been working his way back from a torn medial patellofemoral ligament in his left knee. Aside from a short shutdown period the recovery for Machado has come along good. He should be able to return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[9,503,478,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-front","tag-manny-machado","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","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=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}