{"id":3290,"date":"2013-08-06T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-lewis-to-have-season-ending-surgery\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T17:24:00","slug":"rangers-lewis-to-have-season-ending-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-lewis-to-have-season-ending-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Lewis to have season-ending surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers announced on Tuesday that Colby Lewis will not pitch this season due to a bone spur on the veteran hurler&#8217;s right hip that will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was attempting to return from a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow that has sidelined him since July of last season. He appeared to be nearing a return to the Rangers&#8217; rotation, having thrown five innings for Double-A Frisco in a rehab assignment on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get it done to give myself another shot of pitching in the big leagues,&#8221; said Lewis. &#8220;I&#8217;d love to pitch for the Rangers again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After returning to the majors after a two-year stint in Japan, Lewis started 32 games for Texas in both the 2010 and &#8217;11 seasons and won a combined 26 games over that span while helping the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances. The 34-year-old went 6-6 with a 3.43 ERA in 16 outings last season prior to undergoing elbow surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers announced on Tuesday that Colby Lewis will not pitch this season due to a bone spur on the veteran hurler&#8217;s right hip that will require surgery. Lewis was attempting to return from a torn flexor tendon in his right elbow that has sidelined him since July of [&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":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-3290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290","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=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}