{"id":5281,"date":"2013-09-20T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-activate-heyward-who-wears-protective-mask\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T14:36:00","slug":"braves-activate-heyward-who-wears-protective-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-activate-heyward-who-wears-protective-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves activate Heyward, who wears protective mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves activated Jason Heyward from the disabled list on Friday and the outfielder wore a protective mask on his batting helmet against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward had surgery last month to repair a fractured jaw after he was hit in the side of the face by a pitch from Mets ace Jon Niese.<\/p>\n<p>The protective piece on his helmet wrapped around to protect his jaw on the right side of his face, almost like a broadcaster who wears a microphone head piece. Heyward bats left-handed.<\/p>\n<p>He had been on a tear since being moved to the leadoff spot for the Braves and was hitting .253 with 13 homers, 37 RBI and a .347 on-base percentage when he was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Heyward worked a 10-pitch at-bat his first time to the plate Friday against Cubs starter Scott Baker but struck out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (Sports Network) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves activated Jason Heyward from the disabled list on Friday and the outfielder wore a protective mask on his batting helmet against the Cubs. Heyward had surgery last month to repair a fractured jaw after he was hit in the side of the face by a pitch from [&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":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","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=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}