{"id":534,"date":"2013-06-10T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-c-kratz-has-medial-meniscus-tear\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:35:00","slug":"phillies-c-kratz-has-medial-meniscus-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/phillies-c-kratz-has-medial-meniscus-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies C Kratz has medial meniscus tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; An MRI conducted on Philadelphia Phillies catcher Erik Kratz Monday revealed a medial meniscus tear in the backstop&#8217;s left knee that will require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Kratz sustained the injury in the ninth inning of Saturday&#8217;s 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers while running past first base on a groundout.<\/p>\n<p>A timetable for recovery will be known after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Pennsylvania native is batting .229 with eight home runs and 22 runs batted in through 43 games this season, his fourth in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies placed Kratz on the 15-day disabled list Sunday and recalled catcher Steven Lerud from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; An MRI conducted on Philadelphia Phillies catcher Erik Kratz Monday revealed a medial meniscus tear in the backstop&#8217;s left knee that will require surgery. Kratz sustained the injury in the ninth inning of Saturday&#8217;s 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers while running past first base on a groundout. A timetable [&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":[64,194,195],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}