{"id":8012,"date":"2014-05-28T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2014-05-28T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:43:09","slug":"josh-hamilton-takes-swings-in-batting-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/28\/josh-hamilton-takes-swings-in-batting-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hamilton takes swings in batting cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6544\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/joshhamilton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLos Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton took roughly 100 swings in a batting cage on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is for Hamilton to take on field batting practice on Thursday. Out since early April with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb, Hamilton has now been out of the Angels lineup due to a bone bruise.<\/p>\n<p>While things appear to be going in the right direction neither the Angels nor Hamilton have set a return date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Angels&amp;src=hash\">#Angels<\/a> Josh Hamilton said he took about 100 swings in the cage today. Will hit on field tomorrow. Went well.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Fletcher (@JeffFletcherOCR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffFletcherOCR\/statuses\/471796731269509120\">May 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 159 games since joining the Angels Hamilton has produced a .259\/.318\/.446 line with 23 home runs and 85 RBI.  Prior to joining the Angles he was a five time All-Star and the 2010 AL MVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton took roughly 100 swings in a batting cage on Wednesday. The plan is for Hamilton to take on field batting practice on Thursday. Out since early April with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb, Hamilton has now been out of the Angels lineup due to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,78,391,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-josh-hamilton","10":"tag-los-angels-angels","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","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=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}