{"id":8890,"date":"2014-08-20T21:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2014-08-20T21:15:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:15:19","slug":"garrett-richards-leaves-game-in-ambulance-following-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/20\/garrett-richards-leaves-game-in-ambulance-following-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Richards leaves game in ambulance following knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8891\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/garrettrichards.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/garrettrichards.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/garrettrichards-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLos Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards left his start on Wednesday night against Boston with a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Richards was taken away from Fenway Park in an ambulance after his left knee game out while he was running to cover first base. The right hander had to be placed on a stretcher and was carted off the field.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been no reports about Richards thus far, one can assume his 2014 season will come to an end. It is undoubtedly a crushing blow to the Angels rotation as the 26-year-old was 13-4 with a 2.61 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards left his start on Wednesday night against Boston with a left knee injury. Richards was taken away from Fenway Park in an ambulance after his left knee game out while he was running to cover first base. The right hander had to be placed on a stretcher and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,829,114,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-garrett-richards","10":"tag-los-angeles-angels","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890","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=8890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8890\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}