{"id":3856,"date":"2013-07-23T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T20:43:14","slug":"chris-carpenter-stops-rehab-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/23\/chris-carpenter-stops-rehab-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Carpenter stops rehab assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1299\" alt=\"chriscarpenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter.jpg\" width=\"573\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/02\/chriscarpenter-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals star pitcher Chris Carpenter said he is going to have to take a step back from baseball, and halt his rehab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going to take a step back,&#8221; the veteran right-hander told reporters on Tuesday afternoon at Busch Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter was shelled for four runs on nine hits over 3 1\/3 innings this past Saturday at Triple-A Memphis and had a familiar feeling of numbness in his pitching hand.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter threw in the 89-91 mph range and topped out at 95 mph but he did not have his stuff when he needed it. Ten of his last 14 hitters faced reached base.<\/p>\n<p>There is no timetable for Carpenter&#8217;s return, and the more setbacks Carpenter has, the more likely it is that this could be a career end-er for the 38 year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals star pitcher Chris Carpenter said he is going to have to take a step back from baseball, and halt his rehab. &#8220;Going to take a step back,&#8221; the veteran right-hander told reporters on Tuesday afternoon at Busch Stadium. Carpenter was shelled for four runs on nine hits over 3 1\/3 innings this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}