{"id":4865,"date":"2013-09-10T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-recall-tejada-rice-has-sports-hernia-surgery\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:40:00","slug":"mets-recall-tejada-rice-has-sports-hernia-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-recall-tejada-rice-has-sports-hernia-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets recall Tejada; Rice has sports hernia surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Mets recalled shortstop Ruben Tejada from Triple-A Las Vegas on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tejada hasn&#8217;t been with the Mets since going on the disabled list May 30 with a right quad strain. After being activated from the DL, he was optioned to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>In 50 games with the big league club, he hit just .209 with 10 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets also announced that reliever Scott Rice underwent sports hernia surgery on Tuesday. The procedure was performed by Dr. Bill Meyers in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Rice was placed on the 60-day disabled list earlier this month with the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rice earned a spot on the team out of spring training as a 31-year-old rookie and pitched in a team-high 73 games, posting a 4-5 record with a 3.71 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Mets recalled shortstop Ruben Tejada from Triple-A Las Vegas on Tuesday. Tejada hasn&#8217;t been with the Mets since going on the disabled list May 30 with a right quad strain. After being activated from the DL, he was optioned to Las Vegas. In 50 games with the big [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","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=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}