{"id":23388,"date":"2014-09-11T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-headley-hit-in-chin-by-pitch\/"},"modified":"2014-09-11T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:04:00","slug":"yankees-headley-hit-in-chin-by-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-headley-hit-in-chin-by-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Headley hit in chin by pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees third baseman Chase Headley was struck in the chin by a pitch during Thursday night&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay and was being sent for X-rays on his jaw.<\/p>\n<p>Headley, batting as the designated hitter, took a fastball on his chin from Rays closer Jake McGee leading off the ninth inning but walked off the field with the help of trainers.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Headley wouldn&#8217;t travel to Baltimore with the team right away because he wanted him to have X-rays. He said Headley had seam marks and some bleeding on his chin but didn&#8217;t think he would need stitches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never lost consciousness as far as I saw and seemed as good as you can getting hit with a 98 mile-per-hour fastball,&#8221; Girardi said.<\/p>\n<p>Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was hit on the left elbow by a pitch during the game but Girardi said his X-rays were negative. Jeter wears protective padding on the elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Young hit a walk-off three-run homer in the ninth to give the Yankees a 5-4 win after breaking up Alex Cobb&#8217;s no-hit bid in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; New York Yankees third baseman Chase Headley was struck in the chin by a pitch during Thursday night&#8217;s game against Tampa Bay and was being sent for X-rays on his jaw. Headley, batting as the designated hitter, took a fastball on his chin from Rays closer Jake McGee leading off 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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-23388","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\/23388","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=23388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}