{"id":7090,"date":"2014-04-04T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T02:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2014-04-04T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T02:17:07","slug":"mark-teixeira-leaves-fridays-game-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/04\/mark-teixeira-leaves-fridays-game-with-hamstring-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Teixeira leaves Friday&#8217;s game with hamstring injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6909\" alt=\"markteixeira\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/markteixeira.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/markteixeira.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/markteixeira-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nNew York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira left Friday&#8217;s game after straining his right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira, 33, was injured while chasing a foul ball. While the Yankees have not given any indication of how severe the injury is, Kelly Johnson was moved to first base in Friday&#8217;s game and could be an option going forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Strained right hamstring for Teixeira.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Feinsand (@FeinsandNYDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FeinsandNYDN\/statuses\/452247879118503936\">April 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being injured, Teixeira was 1-for-1 with an RBI. He has been working his way back from last year&#8217;s wrist surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not trusting that the wrist is healthy,\u2019\u2019 Teixeira <a title=\"Mark Teixeira \u201cnot trusting\u201d that his wrist is healthy\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/28\/mark-teixeira-not-trusting-that-his-wrist-is-healthy\/\">told<\/a> The New York Post Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to protect it,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cTaking your \u2018A\u2019 swing, taking that swing that is 100 percent and I need to trust that I can do that and not feel pain. I need to finish my swing instead of protecting my wrist. Last year, to protect my wrist, I didn\u2019t finish my swing.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira left Friday&#8217;s game after straining his right hamstring. Teixeira, 33, was injured while chasing a foul ball. While the Yankees have not given any indication of how severe the injury is, Kelly Johnson was moved to first base in Friday&#8217;s game and could be an option going forward. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,267,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","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=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7091,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions\/7091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}