{"id":7644,"date":"2014-05-10T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T02:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2014-05-10T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T02:14:36","slug":"justin-upton-diagnosed-with-lower-back-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/10\/justin-upton-diagnosed-with-lower-back-contusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Upton diagnosed with lower back contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinupton.jpg\" alt=\"justinupton\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7645\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinupton.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/justinupton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nAtlanta Braves outfielder Justin Upton was diagnosed with a lower back contusion after leaving Saturday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Upton was involved in a collision with Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo on the base paths and later was hit with a Jeff Samardziga fast ball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Braves&amp;src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> have labeled J. Upton&#39;s ailment as a lower back contusion. He&#39;s day-to-day<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Bowman (@mlbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbbowman\/statuses\/465309304199729152\">May 11, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Braves could give Upton a day off on Sunday but he should not miss any significant amount of time. In Saturday&#8217;s game Upton was replaced by Jordan Schafer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta Braves outfielder Justin Upton was diagnosed with a lower back contusion after leaving Saturday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Cubs. Upton was involved in a collision with Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo on the base paths and later was hit with a Jeff Samardziga fast ball. The #Braves have labeled J. Upton&#39;s ailment as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,503,270,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7644","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-justin-upton","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644","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=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7646,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions\/7646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}