{"id":22804,"date":"2014-08-29T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yanks-tanaka-heading-back-to-new-york-with-arm-soreness\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:08:00","slug":"yanks-tanaka-heading-back-to-new-york-with-arm-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yanks-tanaka-heading-back-to-new-york-with-arm-soreness\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanks&#8217; Tanaka heading back to New York with arm soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka&#8217;s hopes of returning to pitch again this season hit a snag Friday when the team announced Tanaka is heading back to New York with what was termed &#8220;general soreness&#8221; in his pitching arm.<\/p>\n<p>The soreness has caused the team to shut Tanaka down from throwing. He will do strengthening exercises at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka has been sidelined since early July with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. He decided to rehab the injury instead of undergoing Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Tanaka had appeared to take a big step toward a September return by throwing 49 pitches in a simulated game on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees are in Toronto for a weekend series against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka&#8217;s hopes of returning to pitch again this season hit a snag Friday when the team announced Tanaka is heading back to New York with what was termed &#8220;general soreness&#8221; in his pitching arm. The soreness has caused the team to shut Tanaka down from throwing. He will [&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-22804","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\/22804","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=22804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}