{"id":10449,"date":"2015-09-17T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10449"},"modified":"2015-09-17T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T17:53:01","slug":"pirates-jung-ho-kang-leaes-game-with-left-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2015\/09\/17\/pirates-jung-ho-kang-leaes-game-with-left-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates: Jung Ho Kang leaes game with left knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/09\/junghokang.jpg\" alt=\"junghokang\" width=\"600\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/09\/junghokang.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2015\/09\/junghokang-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nPittsburgh Pirates shortstop Jung Ho Kang left Thursday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Cubs with a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Kang was taken out on a hard slide by Chicago Cubs outfielder Chris Coghlan as he attempted to break up a doble play. After lying on the field for a few minutes, Kang was able to leave the field with assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Jordy Mercer, who was taken out on a similar play back in July, was inserted into the game to replace Kang.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Pirates, Kang has been a key player to their offense hitting .287\/.355\/.461 while also playing third base and shortstop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Jung Ho Kang left Thursday&#8217;s game against the Chicago Cubs with a left knee injury. Kang was taken out on a hard slide by Chicago Cubs outfielder Chris Coghlan as he attempted to break up a doble play. After lying on the field for a few minutes, Kang was able to leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,894,501,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jung-ho-kang","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10449\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10449"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}