{"id":8010,"date":"2014-05-28T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8010"},"modified":"2014-05-28T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:28:54","slug":"ryan-zimmerman-takes-batting-practice-fields-grounders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/28\/ryan-zimmerman-takes-batting-practice-fields-grounders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Zimmerman takes batting practice, fields grounders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman.jpg\" alt=\"ryanzimmerman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nRyan Zimmerman took batting practice and fielded grounders on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>When Zimmerman returns to the lineup of the Washington Nationals he is expected to rotate between third base, first base and left field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday,\u201d Manager Matt Williams said, \u201cwas a big day for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Zimmerman played catch from 120 feet away and fielded grounders he did no work from third base. He is expected to take grounders there on Thursday according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2014\/05\/28\/ryan-zimmerman-takes-full-batting-practice-in-extensive-workout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe looked good,\u201d General Manager Mike Rizzo said. \u201cHe had strength. The balls he didn\u2019t center up [with the bat], by the vibration of the bat he didn\u2019t have any pain. It looks like he\u2019s got good strength to it. He\u2019s always quick to return, getting his timing and his eye back. I like the way he looked today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zimmerman has already missed 40 games this season. A year ago he hit .275\/.344\/.465 with 26 home runs with 79 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel comfortable wherever makes sense for me to help the team win,\u201d Zimmerman said. \u201cI think anybody in this clubhouse would do that. I\u2019m not sure if I could pitch or catch, but I feel like I could play pretty much anywhere else on the baseball and not look out of place. I take pride in being a pretty good athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Zimmerman took batting practice and fielded grounders on Wednesday. When Zimmerman returns to the lineup of the Washington Nationals he is expected to rotate between third base, first base and left field. \u201cToday,\u201d Manager Matt Williams said, \u201cwas a big day for him.\u201d While Zimmerman played catch from 120 feet away and fielded grounders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,313,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-ryan-zimmerman","10":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010","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=8010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8011,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8010\/revisions\/8011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8010"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}