{"id":8209,"date":"2014-06-14T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2014-06-14T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T15:34:58","slug":"pirates-gerrit-cole-to-throw-side-session-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/14\/pirates-gerrit-cole-to-throw-side-session-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates: Gerrit Cole to throw side session Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4419\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/gerritcole.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Justin K. Aller\/Getty Images North America\" width=\"594\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/gerritcole.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/gerritcole-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Justin K. Aller\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pittsburgh Pirates starter Gerrit Cole is slated to throw a side session on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cole, 23, is currently on the 15-day DL with shoulder fatigue. He threw a bullpen session on Thursday and manager Clint Hurdle believes the right hander is moving towards a return.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we\u2019re taking the steps we need to take when we need to take them to get him back in a compete-to-pitch situation,\u201d Hurdle said via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2014\/06\/14\/Pirates-notebook-Starter-for-series-finale-in-Miami-up-in-air\/stories\/201406140093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pittsburgh Post Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Cole rejoins the Pirates he will return to a 6-3 record with a 3.64 ERA and a 1.30 WHIP after 12 starts this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Pirates starter Gerrit Cole is slated to throw a side session on Sunday. Cole, 23, is currently on the 15-day DL with shoulder fatigue. He threw a bullpen session on Thursday and manager Clint Hurdle believes the right hander is moving towards a return. \u201cI think that we\u2019re taking the steps we need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[446,501,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-gerrit-cole","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209","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=8209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8210,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8209\/revisions\/8210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8209"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}