{"id":19807,"date":"2014-06-19T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-recall-rupp-option-altherr\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:40:06","slug":"phillies-recall-rupp-option-altherr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-recall-rupp-option-altherr\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies recall Rupp, option Altherr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies recalled catcher Cameron Rupp from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Thursday and returned outfielder Aaron Altherr to Double-A Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Rupp, 25, batted .308 in a September call-up last year in his only experience in the majors. He was hitting .167 in 34 games at Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies backup catcher Wil Nieves appeared to injure his right quad on a ninth-inning double Wednesday against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Altherr was called up Monday to take the roster spot when Tony Gwynn Jr. went on the bereavement list following the death of his father, Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn.<\/p>\n<p>He made his major league debut on Monday in a game against Atlanta, flying out as a pinch-hitter in the 12th inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies are in St. Louis for a four-game series with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Philadelphia Phillies recalled catcher Cameron Rupp from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Thursday and returned outfielder Aaron Altherr to Double-A Reading. Rupp, 25, batted .308 in a September call-up last year in his only experience in the majors. He was hitting .167 in 34 games at Lehigh Valley. Phillies backup [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-19807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807","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=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19808,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions\/19808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}