{"id":9380,"date":"2013-03-07T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-lawrie-to-miss-wbc-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:39:00","slug":"blue-jays-lawrie-to-miss-wbc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-lawrie-to-miss-wbc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Lawrie to miss WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie pulled out of the World Baseball Classic on Thursday due to a strained left rib cage.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrie suffered the injury while fielding a ball at third base during Team Canada&#8217;s exhibition game against the Reds on Wednesday night. The Blue Jays expect Lawrie only to miss two or three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In 125 games for Toronto last season, Lawrie hit .273 with 11 homers and 48 RBI. He also missed more than a month of action with a similar injury. Last year&#8217;s strain occurred on the right side of Lawrie&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p>Canada starts pool play against Italy on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarasota, FL (Sports Network) &#8211; Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie pulled out of the World Baseball Classic on Thursday due to a strained left rib cage. Lawrie suffered the injury while fielding a ball at third base during Team Canada&#8217;s exhibition game against the Reds on Wednesday night. The Blue Jays expect Lawrie [&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-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","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=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}