{"id":20053,"date":"2014-06-26T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-take-lagares-off-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-06-26T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T18:35:00","slug":"mets-take-lagares-off-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-take-lagares-off-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets take Lagares off DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets will have outfielder Juan Lagares back in the lineup when the team begins a four-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets activated Lagares, who will bat sixth and play center field in Thursday&#8217;s matchup, from the 15-disabled list prior to the contest. Infielder Wilmer Flores was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas following Wednesday&#8217;s 8-5 loss to Oakland to create a spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n<p>Lagares has been sidelined since June 1 by a strained right intercostal muscle. The 25-year-old just completed a rehab assignment with Double-A Binghamton, in which he went 2-for-8 with an RBI and two runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>In 42 games this season, Lagares is batting .295 with two homers and 18 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Mets will have outfielder Juan Lagares back in the lineup when the team begins a four-game series with the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday. The Mets activated Lagares, who will bat sixth and play center field in Thursday&#8217;s matchup, from the 15-disabled list prior to the contest. Infielder Wilmer Flores [&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-20053","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\/20053","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=20053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}