{"id":7087,"date":"2014-04-04T22:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2014-04-04T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T02:09:17","slug":"joe-saunders-diagnosed-with-bruised-ankle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/04\/joe-saunders-diagnosed-with-bruised-ankle\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Saunders diagnosed with bruised ankle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7088\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joesaunders.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joesaunders.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joesaunders-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTexas Rangers pitcher Joe Saunders left Friday nights start after being hit with a comebacker.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran left hander had x-rays taken and was later diagnosed with a bruised ankle.<\/p>\n<p>While Saunders appears to have avoided a serious injury his time in the Rangers rotation could be short lived as it appears to be just a matter of time before he is replaced by Colby Lewis when the team moves to a five man rotation. Yu Darvish could take Saunders spot the next time though the rotation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>X-rays negative on Joe Saunders. Bruised left ankle. No word on if he will make his next start. Yu Darvish, Colby Lewis would be available.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Wilson (@JeffWilson_FWST) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffWilson_FWST\/statuses\/452256997807624192\">April 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Saunders lasted just 3 2\/3 innings allowing four runs on six hits before leaving the game. He walked three and struck out four.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders was 11-16 last season with a 5.26 ERA and a 1.60 WHIP in 32 starts for the Seattle Mariners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rangers pitcher Joe Saunders left Friday nights start after being hit with a comebacker. The veteran left hander had x-rays taken and was later diagnosed with a bruised ankle. While Saunders appears to have avoided a serious injury his time in the Rangers rotation could be short lived as it appears to be just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[22,501,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-joe-saunders","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","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=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}