{"id":21734,"date":"2014-08-05T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-acquire-yanks-reliever-thornton-off-waivers\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:53:00","slug":"nats-acquire-yanks-reliever-thornton-off-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-acquire-yanks-reliever-thornton-off-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats acquire Yanks reliever Thornton off waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals acquired relief pitcher Matt Thornton off waivers from the New York Yankees on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander went 0-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 24 2\/3 innings over 46 appearances with the Yankees this season.<\/p>\n<p>In other roster news for the Nationals, pitcher Taylor Jordan was transferred to the 60-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>To replace Thornton on their roster, the Yankees signed pitcher Rich Hill. The left-hander made just two appearances with the Angels earlier this season and failed to get an out, allowing one hit and walking three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Washington Nationals acquired relief pitcher Matt Thornton off waivers from the New York Yankees on Tuesday. The left-hander went 0-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 24 2\/3 innings over 46 appearances with the Yankees this season. In other roster news for the Nationals, pitcher Taylor Jordan was transferred to 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":[193,59,58,95,192,60],"class_list":["post-21734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734","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=21734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}