{"id":21220,"date":"2014-07-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-johnson-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:54:00","slug":"yankees-place-johnson-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-johnson-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees place Johnson on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed infielder Kelly Johnson on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained left groin.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is batting .219 with six homers and 22 RBI this season. He was hurt in Tuesday&#8217;s game against Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Playing right field for the first time, Johnson made a nice running catch in right-center field and struggled running to first in his next at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees, after a 14-inning marathon against the Rangers on Tuesday, added bullpen depth on Wednesday by selecting the contract of pitcher Chris Leroux from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n<p>To put Leroux on the 40-man roster, the Yankees designated pitcher Bruce Billings for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed infielder Kelly Johnson on the 15-day disabled list due to a strained left groin. Johnson is batting .219 with six homers and 22 RBI this season. He was hurt in Tuesday&#8217;s game against Texas. Playing right field for the first time, Johnson made a nice running [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220","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=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}