{"id":3451,"date":"2013-08-10T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-recall-mcdonald-put-neal-on-60-day-dl\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:51:00","slug":"cubs-recall-mcdonald-put-neal-on-60-day-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-recall-mcdonald-put-neal-on-60-day-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs recall McDonald, put Neal on 60-day DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs on Saturday selected the contract of outfielder Darnell McDonald from Triple-A Iowa and transferred outfielder Thomas Neal to the 60-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald is set to make his 2013 major-league debut, after hitting .236 with four homers, 13 doubles and 26 RBI in 96 games for Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, McDonald split 42 games between the Red Sox and Yankees, batting just .205 with two homers and nine runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old journeyman has 306 games of pro experience with five teams since 2004, a career .246 hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Neal suffered a dislocated right shoulder in Wednesday&#8217;s game in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago also optioned catcher J.C. Boscan back to Iowa, after recalling him on Thursday. Boscan did not appear in a game. He appeared in 11 games for the Braves from 2010-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs on Saturday selected the contract of outfielder Darnell McDonald from Triple-A Iowa and transferred outfielder Thomas Neal to the 60-day disabled list. McDonald is set to make his 2013 major-league debut, after hitting .236 with four homers, 13 doubles and 26 RBI in 96 games for [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451","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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}