{"id":7612,"date":"2014-05-07T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2014-05-07T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T23:00:27","slug":"josh-hamilton-throws-prior-to-wednesdays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/07\/josh-hamilton-throws-prior-to-wednesdays-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hamilton throws prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6544\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLos Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton is working his way back from April surgery on his left thumb. Prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game he could be spotted in left field doing some soft-toss.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton is still a few weeks away from returning to the field but is expected to take some batting practice on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Josh Hamilton, with his left thumb taped up, taking soft-toss with one hand on the field. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Angels&amp;src=hash\">#Angels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alden_Gonzalez\/statuses\/464164287183728640\">May 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When the 32-year-old Hamilton resumes play he will return to a .444\/.545\/.741 line that sawhim hit two home runs and drive in six runs over just eight games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton is working his way back from April surgery on his left thumb. Prior to Wednesday&#8217;s game he could be spotted in left field doing some soft-toss. Hamilton is still a few weeks away from returning to the field but is expected to take some batting practice on Friday. Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,78,114,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-hamilton","10":"tag-los-angeles-angels","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612","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=7612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7613,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7612\/revisions\/7613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}