{"id":20765,"date":"2014-07-11T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-place-saunders-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T17:56:00","slug":"mariners-place-saunders-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mariners-place-saunders-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners place Saunders on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners placed right fielder Michael Saunders on the 15-day disabled list with a strained oblique.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders was at the plate in the eighth inning of Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Twins when he checked his swing and experienced pain in his side. He left the game in the middle of his at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is hitting .276 on the season with six home runs and 28 RBI in 65 games.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle also recalled first baseman Justin Smoak from Triple-A Tacoma. Smoak owns an average of .208 with seven home runs and 29 RBI in 63 games with the Mariners this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners placed right fielder Michael Saunders on the 15-day disabled list with a strained oblique. Saunders was at the plate in the eighth inning of Thursday night&#8217;s game against the Twins when he checked his swing and experienced pain in his side. He left the game in the middle [&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":[213,131,212],"class_list":["post-20765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765","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=20765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}