{"id":455,"date":"2013-05-20T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-summon-lindblom-to-make-first-major-league-start\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:06:00","slug":"rangers-summon-lindblom-to-make-first-major-league-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-summon-lindblom-to-make-first-major-league-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers summon Lindblom to make first major league start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers have recalled right-hander Josh Lindblom from Triple-A Round Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblom will be making his Rangers debut and his first major league start in Monday&#8217;s series opener against the Oakland Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Acquired in a December trade that sent longtime Ranger Michael Young to Philadelphia, the 25-year-old Lindblom went 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA while making seven starts and one relief appearance for Round Rock this season.<\/p>\n<p>Lindblom made a combined 101 relief appearances with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Phillies the last two years, going 4-5 with one save and a 3.31 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers cleared a roster spot for Lindblom by designating veteran hurler Derek Lowe for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe, who turns 40 on June 1, made Texas&#8217; Opening Day roster after signing a minor league contract on March 6. He gave up 13 runs and 16 hits in nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington, TX (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers have recalled right-hander Josh Lindblom from Triple-A Round Rock. Lindblom will be making his Rangers debut and his first major league start in Monday&#8217;s series opener against the Oakland Athletics. Acquired in a December trade that sent longtime Ranger Michael Young to Philadelphia, the 25-year-old Lindblom went [&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-455","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\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}