{"id":3793,"date":"2013-08-19T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-jennings-comes-off-dl\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:57:00","slug":"rays-jennings-comes-off-dl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rays-jennings-comes-off-dl\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Jennings comes off DL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays will have center fielder Desmond Jennings back in the lineup when the club begins a key three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rays activated Jennings, who had been sidelined for a little over two weeks with a fractured left middle finger, from the 15-day disabled list and inserted him into the leadoff spot for Monday&#8217;s matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings suffered the injury while sliding into second base in a game against San Francisco on August 3. He was batting .258 with 11 home runs, 40 RBI and a team-high 17 stolen bases prior to being sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay optioned reliever Brandon Gomes to Triple-A Durham in a corresponding move. The right-hander returned from a three-month absence caused by a strained lat muscle on Saturday and allowed a solo homer to Toronto&#8217;s Adam Lind in a two-inning stint during the Rays&#8217; 6-2 loss to the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>In 15 appearances this season, Gomes went 0-1 with a 5.68 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; The Tampa Bay Rays will have center fielder Desmond Jennings back in the lineup when the club begins a key three-game series with the Baltimore Orioles on Monday. The Rays activated Jennings, who had been sidelined for a little over two weeks with a fractured left middle finger, from the [&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":[191,67,190],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rays","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}