{"id":8829,"date":"2014-08-13T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:44:27","slug":"masahiro-tanaka-still-hoping-to-return-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/13\/masahiro-tanaka-still-hoping-to-return-this-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Tanaka still hoping to return this season"},"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 \/>\nOn Wednesday New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro threw ten pitches from the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka&#8217;s throwing session came on flat ground at Camden Yards with pitching coach Larry Rothschild catching.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees and Tanaka are hoping that the right hander can avoid Tommy John surgery. Tanaka has been trying to rehab a small tear of the ulnar collateral ligament with an eye on returning this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tanaka threw 10 fastballs on flat ground, feels no pain, feels he can pitch this year if things progress the way they should.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sweeny Murti (@YankeesWFAN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YankeesWFAN\/statuses\/499651169435009024\">August 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tanaka last appeared in a game on July 8 in Cleveland. Prior to his injury the 25-year-old Tanaka had made 18 starts posting a 12-4 record, 2.51 ERA and a 1.01 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro threw ten pitches from the stretch. Tanaka&#8217;s throwing session came on flat ground at Camden Yards with pitching coach Larry Rothschild catching. The Yankees and Tanaka are hoping that the right hander can avoid Tommy John surgery. Tanaka has been trying to rehab a small tear of the [&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":[503,458,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","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=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions\/8830"}],"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=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}