{"id":2771,"date":"2013-07-23T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/walker-in-grilli-out-for-pirates\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:36:00","slug":"walker-in-grilli-out-for-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/walker-in-grilli-out-for-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker in, Grilli out for Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates reinstated second baseman Neil Walker from the 15-day disabled list and placed closer Jason Grilli on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Walker left a July 6 game with what was revealed to be a strained right oblique and missed the Pirates&#8217; last 11 games.<\/p>\n<p>Walker hit .244 with six home runs and 26 RBI in 72 games prior to hitting the DL.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Grilli strained his right forearm in Monday night&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals, which he left with two outs in the ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Grilli, a first-time All-Star this season, has converted 30 of 31 save opportunities and owns a 2.34 earned run average over 45 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates also designated infielder Brandon Inge for assignment and will recall pitcher Vic Black from Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Inge, a 2009 All-Star, hit .181 with one home run in 50 games for the Pirates this season.<\/p>\n<p>Black, 25, heads to the majors for the first time. He had a 2.31 ERA with 15 saves in 35 innings over 29 games for Indianapolis this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Pittsburgh Pirates reinstated second baseman Neil Walker from the 15-day disabled list and placed closer Jason Grilli on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday. The 27-year-old Walker left a July 6 game with what was revealed to be a strained right oblique and missed the Pirates&#8217; last 11 games. Walker [&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-2771","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\/2771","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=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}