{"id":2133,"date":"2013-07-08T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/howard-out-6-to-8-weeks-with-torn-meniscus\/"},"modified":"2013-07-08T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T17:01:00","slug":"howard-out-6-to-8-weeks-with-torn-meniscus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/howard-out-6-to-8-weeks-with-torn-meniscus\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard out 6-to-8 weeks with torn meniscus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Ryan Howard&#8217;s time away from the Phillies lineup was given an unfortunate boost on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old slugger has a torn meniscus in his left knee that will require surgery. Expected recovery time is 6-to-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Philly had placed Howard on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with what was initially termed left knee inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Howard, who has been dealing with knee discomfort for several weeks, was batting .266 with 11 home runs and 43 RBI over 80 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Darin Ruf, recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley, will now get an extended look at the major league level.<\/p>\n<p>Over 82 games in the minors this season, Ruf hit .266 with seven homers and 46 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Ryan Howard&#8217;s time away from the Phillies lineup was given an unfortunate boost on Monday. The 33-year-old slugger has a torn meniscus in his left knee that will require surgery. Expected recovery time is 6-to-8 weeks. Philly had placed Howard on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with what was initially [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","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=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}