{"id":4849,"date":"2015-08-31T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2015-09-22T09:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:54:37","slug":"yunel-escobar-takes-pitch-to-hand-exits-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/yunel-escobar-takes-pitch-to-hand-exits-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Yunel Escobar Takes Pitch to Hand; Exits Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nationals third baseman Yunel Escobar had to exit in the sixth inning after he was hit in the right hand by a pitch thrown by \u00a0Andrew Cashner. It is not known whether his injured hand sustained any <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/metacarpal-fractures\/\" target=\"_blank\">fracturing<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/nerve-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\">nerve damage<\/a>\u00a0at this time.<\/div>\n<p><div><\/div>\n<div>The bases were loaded in the bottom of the fifth inning. The hit to Escobar\u2019s hand brought in the Nationals\u2019 first run of the night and brought the game to a tie. The Nationals took the lead upon scoring another run that inning. Escobar initially remained in the game before Danny Espinosa took his place in the lineup and Anthony Rendon shifted to third base.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Escobar has had a string of bad luck this season, missing some time last weekend due to a hyperextended neck. The 32-year-old has proven to be one of the Nationals\u2019 best players despite all this, batting .308\/.367\/.423 with nine home runs and 42 RBI over 112 games.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals third baseman Yunel Escobar had to exit in the sixth inning after he was hit in the right hand by a pitch thrown by \u00a0Andrew Cashner. It is not known whether his injured hand sustained any fracturing\u00a0or nerve damage\u00a0at this time. The bases were loaded in the bottom of the fifth inning. The hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}