{"id":3295,"date":"2013-08-06T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-heyward-leaves-game-after-first-at-bat\/"},"modified":"2013-10-30T22:50:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T22:50:06","slug":"braves-heyward-leaves-game-after-first-at-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-heyward-leaves-game-after-first-at-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves&#8217; Heyward leaves game after first at-bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; Atlanta Braves right fielder Jason Heyward left Tuesday&#8217;s 2-1 win against the Washington Nationals following his first at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>Just two pitches into the game, Heyward fouled off a high pitch from Gio Gonzalez. Heyward&#8217;s follow through on the swing strained a muscle in his neck. The team said he is day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward received medical attention, but after a few minutes remained in the game and popped out on the next pitch for the first out of the game. Heyward immediately headed for the tunnel and didn&#8217;t come out to play the field in the bottom of the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Gattis entered the game for the Braves playing left field, while Justin Upton moved from left to right. Gattis had a two-run single in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward, who is hitting .234 this season with 10 homers and 31 RBI, was on the disabled list earlier this year due to appendectomy surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; Atlanta Braves right fielder Jason Heyward left Tuesday&#8217;s 2-1 win against the Washington Nationals following his first at-bat. Just two pitches into the game, Heyward fouled off a high pitch from Gio Gonzalez. Heyward&#8217;s follow through on the swing strained a muscle in his neck. The team said he is [&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-3295","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\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}