{"id":2398,"date":"2013-07-13T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-locke-scratched-from-sunday-start\/"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:32:00","slug":"pirates-locke-scratched-from-sunday-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-locke-scratched-from-sunday-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates&#8217; Locke scratched from Sunday start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke has been scratched from his scheduled start Sunday due to lower back tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Locke was slated to start Sunday&#8217;s finale of a three-game series against the New York Mets, but right-hander Gerrit Cole will get the nod instead.<\/p>\n<p>Through 18 starts this season, Locke has compiled an 8-2 record with a 2.15 earned run average to earn his first career All-Star Game selection.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to scratch the 25-year-old left-hander gives him an opportunity to pitch in Tuesday&#8217;s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Cole, the first overall pick in the 2011 draft, owns a 4-2 record and a 3.68 ERA over six starts for the Pirates during his rookie campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke has been scratched from his scheduled start Sunday due to lower back tightness. Locke was slated to start Sunday&#8217;s finale of a three-game series against the New York Mets, but right-hander Gerrit Cole will get the nod instead. Through 18 starts this season, Locke has [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}