{"id":4623,"date":"2013-09-04T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ravens-place-pitta-on-ir-designated-to-return\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T13:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:12:00","slug":"ravens-place-pitta-on-ir-designated-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/ravens-place-pitta-on-ir-designated-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens place Pitta on IR-designated to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owings Mills, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; The Baltimore Ravens seem to be optimistic about tight end Dennis Pitta potentially making a late-season return.<\/p>\n<p>The team placed the veteran on the injured reserve-designated to return list Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pitta underwent surgery to repair a dislocated hip during the summer. The injury was initially considered season-ending, but additional tests revealed that he did not suffer any structural or ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p>The designation means Pitta would be eligible to play in Week 9. The Brigham Young product caught 61 passes for 669 yards and seven touchdowns last season.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding roster move, the Ravens signed veteran tight end Billy Bajema to the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Bajema, who appeared in eight games last season with the Ravens, was cut Saturday as the team got down to 53 players.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma State product has caught 38 passes for 398 yards and two touchdowns in 114 career games with the 49ers, Rams and Ravens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owings Mills, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; The Baltimore Ravens seem to be optimistic about tight end Dennis Pitta potentially making a late-season return. The team placed the veteran on the injured reserve-designated to return list Wednesday. Pitta underwent surgery to repair a dislocated hip during the summer. The injury was initially considered season-ending, but additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,11,13],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-ravens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}