{"id":17963,"date":"2014-04-29T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-nova-has-successful-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:11:00","slug":"yankees-nova-has-successful-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-nova-has-successful-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Nova has successful Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees pitcher Ivan Nova underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery Tuesday to repair a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Andrews performed the procedure, which has a recovery time of approximately 12-to-18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Nova sustained the injury during an April 19 start against the Tampa Bay Rays. The right-hander left the game after feeling discomfort in his pitching elbow in the fifth inning and an MRI conducted the next day revealed the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Nova went 2-2 with an 8.27 earned run average over four starts this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees pitcher Ivan Nova underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery Tuesday to repair a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Dr. James Andrews performed the procedure, which has a recovery time of approximately 12-to-18 months. Nova sustained the injury during an April 19 start against [&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-17963","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\/17963","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=17963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}