{"id":15676,"date":"2014-03-09T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-medlen-exits-start-with-forearm-strain\/"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T15:56:00","slug":"braves-medlen-exits-start-with-forearm-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-medlen-exits-start-with-forearm-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Medlen exits start with forearm strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Port St. Lucie, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves right-hander Kris Medlen left Sunday&#8217;s spring training start against the New York Mets in the fourth inning with a forearm strain in his pitching arm.<\/p>\n<p>With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Medlen threw his first pitch to Matt Clark and could be seen reaching for his right forearm\/elbow.<\/p>\n<p>After throwing his next pitch, Medlen hopped off the mound and headed straight for the dugout.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to Braves training camp in Lake Buena Vista and will be further examined and evaluated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old had Tommy John surgery on the same elbow in August 2010 and missed most of the following season recovering from the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Medlen bounced back to go 10-1 with a minuscule 1.57 earned run average in 2012 before going 15-12 with a 3.11 ERA over 31 starts for the Braves last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port St. Lucie, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Atlanta Braves right-hander Kris Medlen left Sunday&#8217;s spring training start against the New York Mets in the fourth inning with a forearm strain in his pitching arm. With two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Medlen threw his first pitch to Matt Clark and could be seen reaching [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","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=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}