{"id":8608,"date":"2014-07-21T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8608"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T16:07:58","slug":"giants-place-matt-cain-on-dl-recall-george-kontos-for-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/21\/giants-place-matt-cain-on-dl-recall-george-kontos-for-bullpen\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants place Matt Cain on DL, recall George Kontos for bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/mattcain.jpg\" alt=\"mattcain\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/mattcain.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/mattcain-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe San Francisco Giants have placed Matt Can on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Cain, 29, has had a rough season going 2-7 with a 4.18 ERA in 90 1\/3 innings of work this season. The Giants will have Yusmeiro Petit pitch in his place for Tuesday&#8217;s game against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>While Cain could return from the disabled list in a few days, as his placement is retroactive to July 11, the Giants have yet to provide any timetable.<\/p>\n<p>With Cain going to the DL, the Giants have recalled George Kontos.<\/p>\n<p>Kontos has thrown 14 2\/3 innings of relief for the Giants this season posting a 3.07 ERA and a 1.16 WHIP. The 29-year-old&#8217;s call-up is thanks in part to Petit being moved into the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants also placed Brandon Belt on the 7-day concussion disabled list. He was struck by a ball on Saturday. Adam Duvall has been called up to take his roster space. Duvall is hitting .303\/.361\/.626 with 26 home runs this season at Triple-A Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants have placed Matt Can on the 15-day disabled list with elbow inflammation. Cain, 29, has had a rough season going 2-7 with a 4.18 ERA in 90 1\/3 innings of work this season. The Giants will have Yusmeiro Petit pitch in his place for Tuesday&#8217;s game against Philadelphia. While Cain could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,55,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-matt-cain","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608","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=8608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8610,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8608\/revisions\/8610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8608"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}