{"id":771,"date":"2013-06-22T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-bring-up-perez-for-saturday-start\/"},"modified":"2013-06-22T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:39:00","slug":"rangers-bring-up-perez-for-saturday-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rangers-bring-up-perez-for-saturday-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers bring up Perez for Saturday start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers recalled Martin Perez from Triple-A Round Rock and named him the starting pitcher for Saturday&#8217;s tilt versus the St. Louis Cardinals<\/p>\n<p>Perez, a 21-year-old lefty from Venezuela, last joined the big league club for a split doubleheader on May 27th in Arizona. He absorbed the loss after allowing four runs &#8212; three earned &#8212; on nine hits over 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Perez has compiled a 5-1 mark with a 1.75 ERA in Round Rock this season and owns a major league career record of 1-5 in 13 games (seven starts).<\/p>\n<p>To make room for Perez, the Rangers optioned pitcher Joseph Ortiz to Round Rock. The lefty went 2-1 with a 5.08 ERA in 22 games over two stints with Texas this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) &#8211; The Texas Rangers recalled Martin Perez from Triple-A Round Rock and named him the starting pitcher for Saturday&#8217;s tilt versus the St. Louis Cardinals Perez, a 21-year-old lefty from Venezuela, last joined the big league club for a split doubleheader on May 27th in Arizona. He absorbed the loss [&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":[16,15,14],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}