{"id":26756,"date":"2014-12-05T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-werth-to-serve-jail-time-for-reckless-driving\/"},"modified":"2014-12-05T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T23:10:23","slug":"nats-werth-to-serve-jail-time-for-reckless-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nats-werth-to-serve-jail-time-for-reckless-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Nats&#8217; Werth to serve jail time for reckless driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairfax, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth was found guilty of reckless driving Friday and was sentenced to 10 days in jail over a speeding incident in Virginia this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>Werth was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 suspended, and will lose his license for six months.<\/p>\n<p>He was clocked going 105 mph in a 55 mph zone on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County on July 6.<\/p>\n<p>Werth&#8217;s attorney said he will appeal the judge&#8217;s sentence. According to Washington television station WRC, it is likely Werth will only have to serve half of his given sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Werth signed a seven-year contract with the Nationals on Dec. 5, 2010, worth a reported $126 million. He compiled a .292 batting average with 16 home runs and 82 RBI over 147 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>He won a World Series with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008 and owns a career average of .276 with 186 home runs and 659 RBI. Werth has a .246 average, 14 homers and 27 RBI in 53 postseason games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairfax, VA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth was found guilty of reckless driving Friday and was sentenced to 10 days in jail over a speeding incident in Virginia this past summer. Werth was sentenced to 180 days in jail, with 170 suspended, and will lose his license for six months. He was clocked [&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":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-26756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756","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=26756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26770,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26756\/revisions\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}