{"id":17204,"date":"2014-04-07T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-robertson-set-for-dl-stint\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:47:00","slug":"yankees-robertson-set-for-dl-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-robertson-set-for-dl-stint\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Robertson set for DL stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees closer David Robertson is expected to be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained groin, manager Joe Girardi confirmed after the team&#8217;s home opener on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson sustained the injury during Sunday&#8217;s 6-4 win over Toronto when he spun a scoreless inning to pick up his second save. The right-hander underwent an MRI on Monday, which confirmed a Grade 1 strain of his groin.<\/p>\n<p>With Robertson unavailable, Girardi turned to Shawn Kelley to record the final three outs of New York&#8217;s 4-2 win over Baltimore on Monday. Kelley was credited with his first career save.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the season, Robertson was expected to fill the role vacated by legendary closer Mariano Rivera, who retired at the conclusion of the 2013 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees closer David Robertson is expected to be placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained groin, manager Joe Girardi confirmed after the team&#8217;s home opener on Monday. Robertson sustained the injury during Sunday&#8217;s 6-4 win over Toronto when he spun a scoreless inning to pick up his [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-17204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204","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=17204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}