{"id":7234,"date":"2014-04-14T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2014-04-14T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T22:02:31","slug":"maicer-izturis-to-miss-4-6-months-with-torn-knee-ligament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/14\/maicer-izturis-to-miss-4-6-months-with-torn-knee-ligament\/","title":{"rendered":"Maicer Izturis to miss 4-6 months with torn knee ligament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7235\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/maicerizturis.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/maicerizturis.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/maicerizturis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Toronto Blue Jays could be without Maicer Izturis for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Izturis, 33, had been taking starts away from Ryan Goins in recent days but all that came to a halt after he tripped down the dugout stairs in Sunday&#8217;s game against Baltimore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23BlueJays&amp;src=hash\">#BlueJays<\/a> infielder Maicer Izturis expected to miss 4-6 months with ligament tear in knee. Will get second opinion before surgery set.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shi Davidi (@ShiDavidi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShiDavidi\/statuses\/455823499211575296\">April 14, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Izturis is going to get a second opinion on his left knee things are doubtful to change. Izturis said he felt a pop in his knee after the incident.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=31917571&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Goins will now be the clear favorite for starts at second for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 games thi seaosn Izturis was hitting .286 with three runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays could be without Maicer Izturis for the rest of the season. Izturis, 33, had been taking starts away from Ryan Goins in recent days but all that came to a halt after he tripped down the dugout stairs in Sunday&#8217;s game against Baltimore. #BlueJays infielder Maicer Izturis expected to miss 4-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,708,501,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-maicer-izturis","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","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=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}