{"id":5007,"date":"2013-09-13T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/strasburg-scratched-nats-send-ohlendorf-to-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:06:00","slug":"strasburg-scratched-nats-send-ohlendorf-to-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/strasburg-scratched-nats-send-ohlendorf-to-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Strasburg scratched, Nats send Ohlendorf to the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals scratched ace Stephen Strasburg from his scheduled start on Friday and will instead send right-hander Ross Ohlendorf to the mound.<\/p>\n<p>Strasburg apparently felt soreness on Thursday while experimenting with a new pitch. He will rest for a few days and is expected to make his next start against the Miami Marlins on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Nationals manager Davey Johnson said the soreness in Strasburg&#8217;s muscle is in no way related to the Tommy John surgery he had performed three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Ohlendorf takes his place and will make his sixth start of the season Friday when the Nationals open up a crucial 10-game homestand against the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Washington (77-69) has resurfaced in the National League wild card race after winning 17 of its last 22 games, with its four-game sweep of the New York Mets putting them within 5 1\/2 games of Cincinnati for the second wild card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (Sports Network) &#8211; The Washington Nationals scratched ace Stephen Strasburg from his scheduled start on Friday and will instead send right-hander Ross Ohlendorf to the mound. Strasburg apparently felt soreness on Thursday while experimenting with a new pitch. He will rest for a few days and is expected to make his next start [&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":[193,95,192],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-nationals","tag-washington","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","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=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}