{"id":2646,"date":"2013-07-20T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-almonte-on-dl\/"},"modified":"2013-07-20T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T13:48:00","slug":"yankees-place-almonte-on-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-place-almonte-on-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees place Almonte on DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed outfielder Zoilo Almonte on the 15-day disabled list with a left ankle sprain prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>Almonte suffered the injury in the Yankees&#8217; 4-2 loss to the Red Sox on Friday. He hurt the ankle trying to beat out a double play in the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>Almonte is batting .261 with one home run and nine RBI in 26 games this season. He becomes the 16th different player to spend time on the Yankees&#8217; DL this year.<\/p>\n<p>New York also recalled outfielders Melky Mesa and Thomas Neal from Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre and designated infielder Alberto Gonzalez for assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Yankees placed outfielder Zoilo Almonte on the 15-day disabled list with a left ankle sprain prior to Saturday&#8217;s game against the Boston Red Sox. Almonte suffered the injury in the Yankees&#8217; 4-2 loss to the Red Sox on Friday. He hurt the ankle trying to beat out [&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-2646","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\/2646","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=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}