{"id":9058,"date":"2014-09-12T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:48:01","slug":"giancarlo-stanton-wants-to-return-before-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/12\/giancarlo-stanton-wants-to-return-before-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Giancarlo Stanton wants to return before end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/giancarlostanton.jpg\" alt=\"giancarlostanton\" width=\"594\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/giancarlostanton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/giancarlostanton-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nOn Thursday night Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton was carted off the field after he was hit in the face with a pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Stanton was diagnosed with multiple facial fractures and also suffered some damage to his teeth after he was hit by a Mike Fiers pitch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=36168595&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports passes along that Stanton wants to return prior to the end of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Tooth lodged in cheek. Hole in lip so big doc&#39;s index finger fit in it. And get this: Giancarlo Stanton still wants to return this season.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/510422410063921152\">September 12, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to return and being given clearance to return are quite different. Stanton has a large contract waiting for him and as it was his 105 RBI were tops in the majors while his 37 homers led the NL. <\/p>\n<p>If Stanton was somehow able to make it back on the field he surely would have some added facial protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton was carted off the field after he was hit in the face with a pitch. Stanton was diagnosed with multiple facial fractures and also suffered some damage to his teeth after he was hit by a Mike Fiers pitch. Your browser does not support iframes. Jeff Passan of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[207,24,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","9":"tag-miami-marlins","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058","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=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}