{"id":15432,"date":"2014-03-05T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-hochevar-shut-down-with-sprained-elbow\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:22:00","slug":"royals-hochevar-shut-down-with-sprained-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-hochevar-shut-down-with-sprained-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Hochevar shut down with sprained elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals will likely be without pitcher Luke Hochevar for the first two months of the season because of a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Royals manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star on Wednesday that a return for Hochevar by the end of May was the &#8220;best-case scenario.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report said that Hochevar felt a twinge in his elbow during Monday&#8217;s game against the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The sprain was revealed in an MRI taken Tuesday. Hochevar will be shut down for at least two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar shifted to the bullpen last season, going 5-2 with a 1.92 earned run average and two saves in 58 relief appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals will likely be without pitcher Luke Hochevar for the first two months of the season because of a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Royals manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star on Wednesday that a return for Hochevar by the end of May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}