{"id":18782,"date":"2014-05-15T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-beltran-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:22:00","slug":"yankees-place-beltran-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-beltran-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees place Beltran on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed outfielder Carlos Beltran on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with right elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Beltran was forced to exit Monday&#8217;s contest against the New York Mets in the seventh inning after hyperextending his elbow while taking swings in the indoor cage in between at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old outfielder went 0-for-3 prior to leaving the game.<\/p>\n<p>Through 33 games this season, Beltran batted .234 with 10 doubles, five home runs and 15 RBI. His move to the DL is retroactive to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees also purchased the contract of pitcher Chase Whitley from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre and named him the starter for Thursday&#8217;s series finale against the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Whitley will be making his Major League debut after going 3-2 with a 2.39 earned run average over seven games, including six starts. The 24-year-old right-hander struck out 32 hitters in just 26 1\/3 innings this season.<\/p>\n<p>New York designated pitcher Bruce Billings for assignment to make room for Whitley on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed outfielder Carlos Beltran on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with right elbow inflammation. Beltran was forced to exit Monday&#8217;s contest against the New York Mets in the seventh inning after hyperextending his elbow while taking swings in the indoor cage in between at-bats. The 37-year-old outfielder [&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-18782","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\/18782","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=18782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}