{"id":5024,"date":"2013-09-14T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-soriano-scratched-with-thumb-injury\/"},"modified":"2013-09-14T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:26:00","slug":"yankees-soriano-scratched-with-thumb-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-soriano-scratched-with-thumb-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Soriano scratched with thumb injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Yankees outfielder Alfonso Soriano was scratched from Saturday&#8217;s starting lineup against Boston because of a thumb injury.<\/p>\n<p>Soriano has been the Yankees&#8217; top offensive threat since joining the club in a trade with the Cubs back in July. He has clubbed 15 homers and driven in 47 runs in 46 games for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>New York is already short an outfielder after Brett Gardner went down with a strained oblique muscle on Thursday in Baltimore. Gardner could miss the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Vernon Wells will replace Soriano in the left and will bat fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Yankees outfielder Alfonso Soriano was scratched from Saturday&#8217;s starting lineup against Boston because of a thumb injury. Soriano has been the Yankees&#8217; top offensive threat since joining the club in a trade with the Cubs back in July. He has clubbed 15 homers and driven in 47 runs [&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":[59,58,60],"class_list":["post-5024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","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=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}