{"id":20602,"date":"2014-07-08T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-place-masterson-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T21:40:12","slug":"indians-place-masterson-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/indians-place-masterson-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Indians place Masterson on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A swollen right knee has landed struggling Cleveland Indians pitcher Justin Masterson on the 15-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>The Indians made the move one day after Masterson was tagged for five runs in two-plus innings in Monday&#8217;s loss to the New York Yankees, an effort which raised the 2013 American League All-Star&#8217;s season earned run average to 5.51.<\/p>\n<p>Masterson has failed to last more than four innings in any of his last three starts, during which he&#8217;s produced a 13.00 ERA and issued 10 walks in a nine- inning span.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 right-hander won a career-best 14 games a year ago while recording a solid 3.45 ERA and 195 strikeouts over 32 appearances (29 starts).<\/p>\n<p>Reliever Nick Hagadone was recalled from Triple-A Columbus in a corresponding move. The Indians also selected the contact of catcher Roberto Perez from the Clippers and optioned outfielder Tyler Holt to Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Hagadone pitched in six games with the Indians earlier this season, permitting a pair of runs over three innings. Perez was hitting .305 with eight homers and 43 RBI over 53 games at Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A swollen right knee has landed struggling Cleveland Indians pitcher Justin Masterson on the 15-day disabled list. The Indians made the move one day after Masterson was tagged for five runs in two-plus innings in Monday&#8217;s loss to the New York Yankees, an effort which raised the 2013 American League All-Star&#8217;s [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-20602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602","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=20602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20602\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}