{"id":18790,"date":"2014-05-15T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-place-zobrist-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:06:00","slug":"rays-place-zobrist-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-place-zobrist-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays place Zobrist on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays placed utilityman Ben Zobrist on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a dislocated left thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Zobrist left Wednesday&#8217;s matchup against the Mariners in the fifth inning when he jammed his hand on second base after sliding head first into the bag on a steal attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Zobrist, who has served as the Rays&#8217; starting second baseman for much of the season, has batted .260 with three home runs and nine RBI over 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay selected the contract of infielder Cole Figueroa from Triple-A Durham to take Zobrist&#8217;s roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Figueroa hit .299 with eight doubles, three homers and 16 RBI over 33 games with the Bulls this season. The 26-year-old infielder will be making his Major League debut when he appears in a game with the Rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays placed utilityman Ben Zobrist on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a dislocated left thumb. Zobrist left Wednesday&#8217;s matchup against the Mariners in the fifth inning when he jammed his hand on second base after sliding head first into the bag on a steal attempt. Zobrist, who [&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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-18790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790","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=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}