{"id":7884,"date":"2014-05-21T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2014-05-21T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T02:40:14","slug":"michael-wacha-diagnosed-with-elbow-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/21\/michael-wacha-diagnosed-with-elbow-contusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wacha diagnosed with elbow contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7885\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/michaelwacha-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSt. Louis Cardinals starter Michael Wacha has been diagnosed with a right elbow contusion after he was hit in the arm by a foul ball.<\/p>\n<p>Wacha was hit by a foul ball off the bat of teammate Matt Adams. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23STLCards&amp;src=hash\">#STLCards<\/a> press box announcement: Wacha was struck on right elbow by that foul ball; diagnosed with a contusion.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jenifer Langosch (@LangoschMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LangoschMLB\/statuses\/469301862470938624\">May 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wacha was at 88 pitches at the time of the foul ball. It looks like he had avoided any serious injury but his next start could be pushed back regardless.<\/p>\n<p>On the season Wacha owns a 2.54 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP. In six innings of work against Arizona on Wednesday he allowed two hit and three walks while striking out four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Cardinals starter Michael Wacha has been diagnosed with a right elbow contusion after he was hit in the arm by a foul ball. Wacha was hit by a foul ball off the bat of teammate Matt Adams. #STLCards press box announcement: Wacha was struck on right elbow by that foul ball; diagnosed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,348,501,29],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-michael-wacha","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","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=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}