{"id":16923,"date":"2014-03-31T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-murphy-not-in-lineup-wife-giving-birth\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T14:50:37","slug":"mets-murphy-not-in-lineup-wife-giving-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-murphy-not-in-lineup-wife-giving-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; Murphy not in lineup, wife giving birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets starting second baseman Daniel Murphy is not in the Opening Day lineup as his wife is in labor with the couple&#8217;s first child.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy, who hit .313 with four RBI in 32 spring training at-bats, enters 2014 after a strong 2013. In 161 games a season ago, he hit .286 with 13 homers, 78 RBI and 92 runs scored. His 188 hits were second-best in the National League.<\/p>\n<p>Without Murphy in the lineup the Mets are going with Eric Young Jr. at second and Juan Lagares in center field against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>In other lineup news for the Mets, expected starting outfielder Chris Young is out of the lineup due to the flu. Andrew Brown is starting in left field in his place.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the battle for the starting first base job went to Ike Davis over Lucas Duda for the opener. Manager Terry Collins cited Davis&#8217; success against Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg as the reason. Davis is 4-for-11 with two homers lifetime against Strasburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets starting second baseman Daniel Murphy is not in the Opening Day lineup as his wife is in labor with the couple&#8217;s first child. Murphy, who hit .313 with four RBI in 32 spring training at-bats, enters 2014 after a strong 2013. In 161 games a season ago, [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-16923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923","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=16923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16923\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}