{"id":5441,"date":"2013-09-24T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/machado-has-ligament-tear-out-6-8-weeks\/"},"modified":"2013-09-24T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:54:00","slug":"machado-has-ligament-tear-out-6-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/machado-has-ligament-tear-out-6-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Machado has ligament tear, out 6-8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been diagnosed with a torn knee ligament one day after being taken off the field on a stretcher, but could possibly be back to running as early as six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Machado&#8217;s injury is apparently not as serious as it looked on Monday, when he was carted off the field during a road game against the Tampa Bay Rays. The All-Star&#8217;s left knee buckled when he stepped awkwardly on first base<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles announced Tuesday that Machado has a torn medial patellofemoral ligament &#8212; not a more serious ACL or MCL tear, both of which could have sidelined him for months.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated healing time for the injury is six-to-eight weeks, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Machado, 21, hit .283 with 14 home runs, 71 RBI, an American League-leading 51 doubles and a .314 on-base percentage in his first full major league season.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the injury, Machado had played in 207 straight games since his major league debut last year, including 156 this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) &#8211; Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been diagnosed with a torn knee ligament one day after being taken off the field on a stretcher, but could possibly be back to running as early as six weeks. Machado&#8217;s injury is apparently not as serious as it looked on Monday, when [&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":[12,45,46],"class_list":["post-5441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-orioles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441","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=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}