{"id":16260,"date":"2014-03-16T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/d-backs-corbin-to-miss-australia-trip-due-to-ucl-injury\/"},"modified":"2014-03-16T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T12:47:00","slug":"d-backs-corbin-to-miss-australia-trip-due-to-ucl-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/d-backs-corbin-to-miss-australia-trip-due-to-ucl-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"D-backs&#8217; Corbin to miss Australia trip due to UCL injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottsdale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks received bad news about starting pitcher Patrick Corbin on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Corbin exited his final tune-up start on Saturday with what the team called &#8220;forearm stiffness&#8221; at the time. In the middle of an at-bat with one out in the seventh inning against the Indians, Corbin was forced to leave the contest due to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>An MRI taken Saturday night showed damage to the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks will get a second opinion this week. Corbin had been scheduled to start the first game of the Opening Series in Australia against the Dodgers. Wade Miley will take Corbin&#8217;s place on the trip.<\/p>\n<p>In four spring starts, Corbin went 1-1 with a 3.26 ERA. The left-hander was an All-Star in 2013, posting a 14-8 record with a 3.41 ERA and 178 strikeouts in 32 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Damage to the ulnar collateral ligament often leads to Tommy John ligament replacement surgery, which requires 12 months of recovery, but that step has not been established in Corbin&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottsdale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Arizona Diamondbacks received bad news about starting pitcher Patrick Corbin on Sunday morning. Corbin exited his final tune-up start on Saturday with what the team called &#8220;forearm stiffness&#8221; at the time. In the middle of an at-bat with one out in the seventh inning against the Indians, Corbin was forced [&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":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260","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=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}