{"id":20834,"date":"2014-07-13T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-liriano-set-to-return\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T12:19:00","slug":"pirates-liriano-set-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-liriano-set-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Liriano set to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Francisco Liriano will make his first major league start in a month when the team wraps up its first half Sunday in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>Liriano, sidelined since June 10 with a strained left oblique, was activated from the 15-day disabled list to pitch Sunday&#8217;s game against the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 National League Comeback Player of the Year had been struggling prior to the injury, posting a lackluster 1-6 record with a 4.60 ERA in 14 starts. Liriano went 16-8 with a 3.02 ERA last season to help the Pirates reach the playoffs for the first time since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Liriano tuned up for Sunday&#8217;s assignment with a sharp six-inning stint for Triple-A Indianapolis on Monday, yielding no runs and just three hits while striking out eight.<\/p>\n<p>Infielder Matt Hague was optioned to Indianapolis to make room for Liriano on the active roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates left-hander Francisco Liriano will make his first major league start in a month when the team wraps up its first half Sunday in Cincinnati. Liriano, sidelined since June 10 with a strained left oblique, was activated from the 15-day disabled list to pitch Sunday&#8217;s game against the Reds. 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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-20834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834","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=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}