{"id":18580,"date":"2014-05-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-laroche-lands-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T14:00:00","slug":"nationals-laroche-lands-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nationals-laroche-lands-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals&#8217; LaRoche lands on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals decided to place Adam LaRoche on the 15-day disabled list Sunday due to a right quadriceps strain the first baseman had been battling through for more than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>LaRoche was held out of Saturday&#8217;s 4-3 loss at Oakland after serving as the designated hitter for Friday&#8217;s opener of the series.<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year veteran had been putting together a strong performance at the plate in spite of the lingering injury, leading the Nationals with a .319 average and five homers while driving in 21 runs over 32 games.<\/p>\n<p>LaRoche joins two other key regulars, third baseman Ryan Zimmerman and left fielder Bryce Harper, on the DL.<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder\/first baseman Tyler Moore was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to take the available roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Moore saw action in 18 games with the Nationals earlier in the season, going 6-for-30 with a pair of homers and three RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals decided to place Adam LaRoche on the 15-day disabled list Sunday due to a right quadriceps strain the first baseman had been battling through for more than two weeks. LaRoche was held out of Saturday&#8217;s 4-3 loss at Oakland after serving as the designated hitter for Friday&#8217;s opener [&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":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-18580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580","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=18580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}