{"id":8945,"date":"2014-08-27T11:27:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2014-08-27T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:27:49","slug":"yadier-molina-could-return-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/27\/yadier-molina-could-return-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Yadier Molina could return this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6513\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/yadiermolina-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe return of St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina could come this weekend reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/sports\/baseball\/professional\/molina-to-catch-for-springfield-today\/article_6fb980e9-0170-5f74-84c7-c640722abe65.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">St. Louis Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Molina will catch at Double-A Springfield on Wednesday with the help of a support on his surgically-repaired right thumb. He is expected to play five to six innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in really good shape,\u201d Molina told The Springfield News-Leader. \u201cI\u2019m happy with the way everything is going. I can\u2019t wait for (Wednesday).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is the Cardinals waiting until Monday when rosters expand. It will ultimately depend on how Molina feels following tonight&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to going down Molina was hitting .287\/.341\/.409 with seven home runs and 30 RBI in 83 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina could come this weekend reports the St. Louis Dispatch. Molina will catch at Double-A Springfield on Wednesday with the help of a support on his surgically-repaired right thumb. He is expected to play five to six innings. \u201cI\u2019m in really good shape,\u201d Molina told The Springfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,29,441],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","11":"tag-yadier-molina"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","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=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}