{"id":18390,"date":"2014-05-09T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-recall-giavotella-from-omaha\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:59:00","slug":"royals-recall-giavotella-from-omaha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-recall-giavotella-from-omaha\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals recall Giavotella from Omaha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals recalled second baseman Johnny Giavotella from Triple-A Omaha Friday and optioned pitcher Michael Mariot to Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Giavotella appeared in one game with the Royals earlier this season and went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Over 24 games at Omaha this year, the 26-year-old infielder batted .352 with nine doubles, one home run and 13 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>Giavotella is expected to fill in for second baseman Omar Infante, who&#8217;s been dealing with stiffness and spasms in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p>Mariot, 25, made his major league debut with the Royals on April 11 and allowed seven runs in 10 2\/3 innings over six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Kansas City Royals recalled second baseman Johnny Giavotella from Triple-A Omaha Friday and optioned pitcher Michael Mariot to Omaha. Giavotella appeared in one game with the Royals earlier this season and went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Over 24 games at Omaha this year, the 26-year-old infielder [&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-18390","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\/18390","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=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}