{"id":3028,"date":"2013-07-30T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-send-of-johnson-to-dl\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T12:49:00","slug":"braves-send-of-johnson-to-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-send-of-johnson-to-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves send OF Johnson to DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves placed reserve outfielder Reed Johnson on the 15-day disabled list following Monday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies due to tendinitis in his left Achilles.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson injured himself while running to first base during a pinch-hitting appearance in Sunday&#8217;s 5-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The 13-year veteran is batting .263 with one home run and 11 RBI over 66 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>To fill the available roster spot, the Braves purchased the contract of outfielder Todd Cunningham from Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham, rated as the No. 8 overall prospect in the Atlanta organization by MLB.com, has hit .279 with two homers, 30 RBI and 18 stolen bases in 99 games with Gwinnett. The switch-hitter was the Braves&#8217; second-round pick in the 2010 MLB First-Year Player Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves placed reserve outfielder Reed Johnson on the 15-day disabled list following Monday&#8217;s game against the Colorado Rockies due to tendinitis in his left Achilles. Johnson injured himself while running to first base during a pinch-hitting appearance in Sunday&#8217;s 5-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The 13-year [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-3028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028","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=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}