{"id":17291,"date":"2014-04-09T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/thumb-surgery-to-cost-angels-hamilton-6-to-8-weeks\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T18:43:00","slug":"thumb-surgery-to-cost-angels-hamilton-6-to-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/thumb-surgery-to-cost-angels-hamilton-6-to-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumb surgery to cost Angels&#8217; Hamilton 6-to-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Josh Hamilton&#8217;s head-first slide into first base will sideline the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim slugger the next 6-to-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced Wednesday Hamilton will undergo thumb surgery and called up outfielder J.B. Shuck from Triple-A Salt Lake to take his place on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, who is coming off a disappointing first season in Anaheim, hit a chopper to shortstop in the seventh inning of Tuesday&#8217;s game against the Mariners and tried beating the throw to first by sliding in head first.<\/p>\n<p>He was called out on a bang-bang play and stayed in the game until Ian Stewart pinch-hit for him in the ninth inning with two men on base. Stewart struck out in what turned into a 5-3 loss for the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was off to a good start over the first eight games, hitting .444 with a pair of homers, seven runs scored and six RBI. The 32-year-old batted a career-low .250 last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Josh Hamilton&#8217;s head-first slide into first base will sideline the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim slugger the next 6-to-8 weeks. The team announced Wednesday Hamilton will undergo thumb surgery and called up outfielder J.B. Shuck from Triple-A Salt Lake to take his place on the roster. Hamilton, who is coming off [&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":[88,21,87],"class_list":["post-17291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-angels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291","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=17291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}