{"id":20271,"date":"2014-07-01T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-gattis-to-land-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T00:23:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T00:23:00","slug":"braves-gattis-to-land-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-gattis-to-land-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Gattis to land on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves will place catcher Evan Gattis on the 15-day disabled list after an MRI confirmed the slugger has a bulging thoracic disk.<\/p>\n<p>Gattis, 27, has missed the last four games with what was originally diagnosed as a right rhomboid spasm. He left last Friday&#8217;s win over Philadelphia in the first inning with back discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initially, it just kind of hurt to breathe and stuff like that, so I&#8217;ve got some kind of relief knowing I&#8217;ve got an answer,&#8221; Gattis said.<\/p>\n<p>Gattis, who was out of baseball before signing with Atlanta and appearing in 105 games as a rookie last season, is having a breakout year in 2014. He&#8217;s tied for the team lead with a .290 batting average and 16 home runs, while also driving in 39 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta&#8217;s second-ranked prospect Christian Bethancourt was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett on June 28 to provide depth at catcher while Gattis is out. The Braves will still need to make a corresponding move for placing Gattis on the DL on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves will place catcher Evan Gattis on the 15-day disabled list after an MRI confirmed the slugger has a bulging thoracic disk. Gattis, 27, has missed the last four games with what was originally diagnosed as a right rhomboid spasm. He left last Friday&#8217;s win over Philadelphia in the [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-20271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271","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=20271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}