{"id":7112,"date":"2014-04-06T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2014-04-06T11:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:13:56","slug":"jason-heyward-to-play-though-neck-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/06\/jason-heyward-to-play-though-neck-spasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Heyward to play though neck spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward.jpg\" alt=\"jasonheyward\" width=\"594\" height=\"485\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4742\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/jasonheyward-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward will play though neck spasms and a headache in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward began feeling neck spasms after fouling off a pitch on Saturday. He stayed in the game that resulted in a 6-2 Braves win.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Heyward dealt with a similar issue but did not miss any time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Heyward says he&#39;ll play today. Like last August here in DC, he felt muscle spasms near his neck after fouling a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/statuses\/452821586610225152\">April 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though his first five games Heyward is hitting .167\/.318\/.333 with a home run and two runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Jason Heyward will play though neck spasms and a headache in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals. Heyward began feeling neck spasms after fouling off a pitch on Saturday. He stayed in the game that resulted in a 6-2 Braves win. Last season Heyward dealt with a similar issue but did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,307,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-jason-heyward","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112","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=7112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7112\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}