{"id":9095,"date":"2014-09-27T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2014-09-27T18:25:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T22:25:19","slug":"derek-jeter-to-dh-in-final-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/27\/derek-jeter-to-dh-in-final-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Jeter to DH in final game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3978\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3978\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/derekjeteryankees.jpg\" alt=\" Source: Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/derekjeteryankees.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/derekjeteryankees-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/derekjeteryankees-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the New York Yankees failing to make the playoffs for the second straight season the career of Derek\u00a0Jeter will come to an end on Sunday against the long-time rival Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Jeter was pinch hit for in the fifth inning of Saturday&#8217;s game at Fenway Park elicting a slue of boos from fans in what turned out to be a 10-4 loss for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Asked after the game if he would play Sunday, Jeter replied &#8220;yep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager Joe Girardi said that there were no concerns over the legs of Jeter even as cameras caught him limping. Jeter told Girardi that he wanted only two at-bats in Saturday&#8217;s game, a request that Girardi honored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Girardi said about Jeter&#8217;s legs. &#8220;I think he had to run extremely hard and he had to stretch. He probably felt it a little bit in his hamstring, but he didn&#8217;t say he was injured, but we&#8217;ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have planned a low-key celebration for the end of Jeter&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the New York Yankees failing to make the playoffs for the second straight season the career of Derek\u00a0Jeter will come to an end on Sunday against the long-time rival Boston Red Sox. Jeter was pinch hit for in the fifth inning of Saturday&#8217;s game at Fenway Park elicting a slue of boos from fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[40,503,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-derek-jeter","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095","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=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions\/9096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}