{"id":8962,"date":"2014-08-28T11:13:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T15:13:01","slug":"masahiro-tanaka-throws-simulated-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/28\/masahiro-tanaka-throws-simulated-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahiro Tanaka throws simulated game"},"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 threw a simulated game on Thursday morning at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka, 25, is attempting to return to the mound this season after being diagnosed with a torn UCL. The rookie import is hoping to avoid Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Joe Girardi pleased with Tanaka&#39;s outing and says he would return only as a starter and not in relief<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/statuses\/505004120169013249\">August 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to manager Joe Girardi, Tanaka&#8217;s 49-pitch session went well. This is the latest good news for Tanaka. If the Yankees brought Tanaka back this year it would only be as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>There is still no timetable for when Tanaka could return to the mound but the chance still exists. In 18 starts thus far he is 12-4 with a 2.51 ERA and a 1.01 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka threw a simulated game on Thursday morning at Comerica Park. Tanaka, 25, is attempting to return to the mound this season after being diagnosed with a torn UCL. The rookie import is hoping to avoid Tommy John surgery. Joe Girardi pleased with Tanaka&#39;s outing and says he would [&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-8962","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\/8962","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=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions\/8963"}],"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=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}