{"id":7876,"date":"2014-05-21T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T20:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T20:51:50","slug":"pirates-to-activate-jason-grilli-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/21\/pirates-to-activate-jason-grilli-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates to activate Jason Grilli on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7474\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/jasongrilli-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are expected to activate relief pitcher Jason Grilli on Saurday.<\/p>\n<p>Grilli threw a 20-pitch simulated inning on Wednesday and said he is ready to return to action. THe Pirates have not had Grilli available since April 21 when he went down with a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Jason Grilli said he felt good after his 1 inning, 20-pitch sim game. Targeting Saturday as a return.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Brink (@BrinkPG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrinkPG\/statuses\/469210671503376384\">May 21, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mark Melancon has been filling in as the Pirates closer in Grilli&#8217;s absence and could remain there for a while longer.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to going down Grilli had posted a 4.50 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP in eight appearances while recording four saves. A season ago he was selected to the NL All-Star team after recording 33 saves in 54 games with a 2.70 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are expected to activate relief pitcher Jason Grilli on Saurday. Grilli threw a 20-pitch simulated inning on Wednesday and said he is ready to return to action. THe Pirates have not had Grilli available since April 21 when he went down with a left oblique strain. Jason Grilli said he felt good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[111,501,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-jason-grilli","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876","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=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}