{"id":1968,"date":"2013-07-04T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-dfa-reliever-lyon\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:14:00","slug":"mets-dfa-reliever-lyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-dfa-reliever-lyon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets DFA reliever Lyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets designated veteran relief pitcher Brandon Lyon for assignment following Thursday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon, signed to a one-year contract by the team in February, went 2-2 with a 4.98 earned run average over 37 appearances this season. The right-hander gave up a run on three hits in 1 1\/3 innings of work in Thursday&#8217;s 5-4, 15-inning loss to the Diamondbacks, four days after he was shelled for six runs on five hits while recording just two outs against Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old is 42-47 with 79 saves and a 4.16 ERA over 572 games during a 12-year stint in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>New York will announce a corresponding roster move prior to Friday&#8217;s start of a three-game series at Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets designated veteran relief pitcher Brandon Lyon for assignment following Thursday&#8217;s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Lyon, signed to a one-year contract by the team in February, went 2-2 with a 4.98 earned run average over 37 appearances this season. The right-hander gave up a run on [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}