{"id":9377,"date":"2013-03-05T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-teixeira-to-miss-wbc-with-strained-right-forearm-3\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T18:07:00","slug":"yankees-teixeira-to-miss-wbc-with-strained-right-forearm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/yankees-teixeira-to-miss-wbc-with-strained-right-forearm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Teixeira to miss WBC with strained right forearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glendale, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has been ruled out of the World Baseball Classic after suffering a strained right forearm during batting practice before Team USA&#8217;s exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira, who was expected to start at first base for Team USA, experienced tightness on the inside of his right forearm and was a late scratch. Tampa Bay Rays utilityman Ben Zobrist replaced Teixeira at first base.<\/p>\n<p>X-rays came back negative, but Teixeira is expected to miss the next 7-to-10 days with the ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA opens pool play in the WBC on Friday against Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glendale, AZ (Sports Network) &#8211; New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has been ruled out of the World Baseball Classic after suffering a strained right forearm during batting practice before Team USA&#8217;s exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday. Teixeira, who was expected to start at first base for Team USA, experienced [&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":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}