{"id":7506,"date":"2014-04-28T18:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T22:26:33","slug":"bryce-harper-out-til-july-with-torn-ligament-in-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/28\/bryce-harper-out-til-july-with-torn-ligament-in-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper out til July with torn ligament in thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7507\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/bryceharper.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/bryceharper.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/bryceharper-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Washington Nationals had hoped for the best in regards to the thumb of outfielder Bryce Harper. Now they must prepare for the future without him.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/10853575\/bryce-harper-washington-nationals-torn-thumb-ligament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Keith Law<\/a> the Nationals will be without Harper until early July as he is set to undergo surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb. The injury occurred on Friday as he slid head first into third base.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=32372109&#038;topic_id=69622576&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A season ago Harper missed 44 games after suffering a knee injury when he slammed into the outfield wall at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals are also dealing with hand injuries to third baseman Ryan Zimmerman and catcher Wilson Ramos, both of which are a considerable amount of time away from returning to the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals had hoped for the best in regards to the thumb of outfielder Bryce Harper. Now they must prepare for the future without him. According to ESPN&#8217;s Keith Law the Nationals will be without Harper until early July as he is set to undergo surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[83,503,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bryce-harper","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506","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=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}