{"id":4173,"date":"2013-08-27T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-betancourt-tears-elbow-ligament-career-in-jeopardy\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T01:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:44:00","slug":"rockies-betancourt-tears-elbow-ligament-career-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-betancourt-tears-elbow-ligament-career-in-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies&#8217; Betancourt tears elbow ligament, career in jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; Colorado Rockies closer Rafael Betancourt may never pitch in the big leagues again.<\/p>\n<p>Betancourt, a veteran of 11 seasons in the majors, has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and will undergo platelet-rich plasma treatment as opposed to Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Betancourt said on the team&#8217;s website he will not go under the knife if the platelet-rich plasma treatment does not work, thus ending his career.<\/p>\n<p>Betancourt has 16 saves this season with a 4.08 earned-run average but has blown his last two save opportunities. He returned from an appendectomy earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Over 635 appearances out of the bullpen for the Indians and Rockies, Betancourt has pitched to a 3.19 ERA and allowed just 1.09 walks\/hits per games. He owns 74 saves and 142 holds in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (Sports Network) &#8211; Colorado Rockies closer Rafael Betancourt may never pitch in the big leagues again. Betancourt, a veteran of 11 seasons in the majors, has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right arm and will undergo platelet-rich plasma treatment as opposed to Tommy John surgery. The 38-year-old Betancourt said on 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":[210,209,211],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-rockies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","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=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}