{"id":8756,"date":"2014-08-06T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:04:47","slug":"andrelton-simmons-injured-ankle-more-serious-than-braves-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/06\/andrelton-simmons-injured-ankle-more-serious-than-braves-though\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrelton Simmons&#8217; injured ankle more serious than Braves thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/andreltonsimmons.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/andreltonsimmons.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/andreltonsimmons-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWhile the Atlanta Braves initially indicated that shortstop Andrelton Simmons had simply tweaked his ankle there is some concern that the injury is more serious.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was in a splint and using crutches in the Braves clubhouse on Wednesday. Apparently Simmons&#8217; ankle began to swell once he stopped icing it.<\/p>\n<p>While the Braves are hopeful that Simmons can avoid the disabled list he can safely be ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s contest. The Braves have an off day on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Braves?src=hash\">#Braves<\/a> Simmons on crutches, Fredi G said they&#39;re hoping he&#39;ll avoid DL but it swelled after stopped icing it last night<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David O&#39;Brien (@DOBrienAJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DOBrienAJC\/statuses\/497071725042208769\">August 6, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Simmons is hitting .249\/.297\/.340 with five home runs and 36 RBI in 107 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Atlanta Braves initially indicated that shortstop Andrelton Simmons had simply tweaked his ankle there is some concern that the injury is more serious. Simmons was in a splint and using crutches in the Braves clubhouse on Wednesday. Apparently Simmons&#8217; ankle began to swell once he stopped icing it. While the Braves are hopeful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[421,28,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-andrelton-simmons","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","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=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8759,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions\/8759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}