{"id":8994,"date":"2014-09-01T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2014-09-01T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:33:28","slug":"dodgers-drop-yasiel-puig-to-six-spot-in-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/01\/dodgers-drop-yasiel-puig-to-six-spot-in-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers drop Yasiel Puig to six spot in lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8995\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/yasielpuig.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/yasielpuig.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/yasielpuig-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers have dropped outfielder Yasiel Puig to the sixth spot in the lineup ahead of Monday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Puig has never batted lower than fifth in a start but manager Don Mattingly is trying to shake things up after the 23-year-old struggled throughout August.<\/p>\n<p>Puig&#8217;s overall season numbers remain strong but he is coming off an August in which he hit just .216\/.296\/.247 without a home run and just three extra base hits in 97 at-bats.  His four RBI for the month were a far cry from the 25 he had in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers have dropped outfielder Yasiel Puig to the sixth spot in the lineup ahead of Monday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals. Puig has never batted lower than fifth in a start but manager Don Mattingly is trying to shake things up after the 23-year-old struggled throughout August. Puig&#8217;s overall season numbers remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,135,501,387],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-yasiel-puig"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","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=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}