{"id":8734,"date":"2014-08-05T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:09:11","slug":"masahiro-tanaka-feels-good-after-50-tosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/05\/masahiro-tanaka-feels-good-after-50-tosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Tanaka feels good after 50 tosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8735\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/masahirotanaka.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/masahirotanaka.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/masahirotanaka-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNew York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka feels good following 50 throws on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday the 25-year-old Tanaka played catch for the first time since being shut down with a partially-torn ulnar collateral ligament. On Tuesday he threw 50 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>There are still a few steps before Tanaka is ready to return to game action. He is also not out of the woods as far as Tommy John surgery is concerned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tanaka made 50 throws today at higher intensity than monday, still felt good. Progress continues.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Barbarisi (@DanBarbarisi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanBarbarisi\/statuses\/496746167334883328\">August 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 18 starts this season Tanaka was 12-4 with a 2.51 ERA and a 1.01 WHIP earning a selection to the AL All-Star team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka feels good following 50 throws on Tuesday. On Monday the 25-year-old Tanaka played catch for the first time since being shut down with a partially-torn ulnar collateral ligament. On Tuesday he threw 50 pitches. There are still a few steps before Tanaka is ready to return to game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[458,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-masahiro-tanaka","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734","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=8734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8734\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8734"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}