{"id":7259,"date":"2014-04-15T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2014-04-15T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:12:11","slug":"chad-billingsley-to-have-mri-following-bullpen-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/15\/chad-billingsley-to-have-mri-following-bullpen-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Billingsley to have MRI following bullpen session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chadbillingsley.jpg\" alt=\"chadbillingsley\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chadbillingsley.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chadbillingsley-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chad Billingsley is set to have an MRI on his right elbow following a bullpen session on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Billingsley was unable to complete the session and now the Los Angeles Dodgers have sent him to have a dye-MRI. Just over a week ago Billingsley reported some discomfort in his elbow following a rehab start. The Dodgers said there was no structural damage at that time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Chad Billingsley had his bullpen cut short at 20 pitches. Heading back to LA for dye-MRI tomorrow on elbow. Felt tightness\/discomfort today<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billplunkettocr\/statuses\/456207150209961984\">April 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There had been hope that he would be ready to contribute sometime in May. With the recent setback that timetable is up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Billingsley made just two starts last season. In eight big league seasons he owns a 81-61 record, 3.65 ERA and a 1.36 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Billingsley is set to have an MRI on his right elbow following a bullpen session on Tuesday. Billingsley was unable to complete the session and now the Los Angeles Dodgers have sent him to have a dye-MRI. Just over a week ago Billingsley reported some discomfort in his elbow following a rehab start. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[296,135,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chad-billingsley","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}