{"id":17228,"date":"2014-04-08T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-infante-avoids-major-injury\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:51:25","slug":"royals-infante-avoids-major-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-infante-avoids-major-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Infante avoids major injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals announced on Tuesday that starting second baseman Omar Infante avoided major injury after being hit in the face with a pitch on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Infante will not miss a significant amount of time despite being hit on the left side of his face by a Health Bell 89 mph change-up during Monday&#8217;s 4-2 win over Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Infante received six stitches to close a laceration and tests revealed he did not suffer a concussion, but did sprain the right side of his jaw.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate plan is to evaluate him over the next two days and likely make a decision on the disabled list by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Infante is batting .348 in six games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals announced on Tuesday that starting second baseman Omar Infante avoided major injury after being hit in the face with a pitch on Monday night. Infante will not miss a significant amount of time despite being hit on the left side of his face by a Health [&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-17228","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\/17228","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=17228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17229,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17228\/revisions\/17229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}