{"id":605,"date":"2013-06-13T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-activate-morton-from-dl-to-make-thursday-start\/"},"modified":"2013-06-13T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T19:21:00","slug":"pirates-activate-morton-from-dl-to-make-thursday-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/pirates-activate-morton-from-dl-to-make-thursday-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates activate Morton from DL to make Thursday start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Pirates pitcher Charlie Morton will make his return to the mound on Thursday, tabbed as the starter in Pittsburgh&#8217;s series finale with San Francisco after the club activated him from the 60-day disabled list.<\/p>\n<p>Morton hasn&#8217;t pitched since May 29, 2012, and has been sidelined for more than a year thanks to right elbow inflammation which eventually required Tommy John surgery. He was 2-6 with a 4.65 earned run average in nine starts last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucs also placed pitcher A.J. Burnett on the 15-day DL (retroactive to June 9) and released hurler Jose Contreras.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett, who is sidelined with a right calf strain, is just 4-6 with a 3.12 ERA despite having started a MLB-high 14 games already in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras, 41, did not record a decision in seven appearances this season, pitching to a 9.00 ERA by allowing five earned runs in five innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) &#8211; Pirates pitcher Charlie Morton will make his return to the mound on Thursday, tabbed as the starter in Pittsburgh&#8217;s series finale with San Francisco after the club activated him from the 60-day disabled list. Morton hasn&#8217;t pitched since May 29, 2012, and has been sidelined for more than a year [&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":[180,143,179],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}