{"id":5298,"date":"2016-06-16T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2016-06-20T13:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:44:29","slug":"%e2%80%8bmets-%e2%80%8bjuan-lagares%e2%80%8b-out-with-a-thumb-injury%e2%80%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/%e2%80%8bmets-%e2%80%8bjuan-lagares%e2%80%8b-out-with-a-thumb-injury%e2%80%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bMets&#8217; \u200bJuan Lagares\u200b Out With a Thumb Injury\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can add Juan Lagares to the heap of Mets players recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/mets\/juan-lagares-scratched-mets-lineup-thumb-injury-article-1.2675431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out of the line-up<\/a> due to a thumb injury.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\n\u200bOriginally <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/new-york-mets-outfielder-juan-lagares-to-play-with-torn-thumb-ligament\/\" target=\"_blank\">thought to be a minor tear<\/a>, recently injured outfield Juan Lagares&#8217; \u200bwas held out of Wednesday night&#8217;s game due to the pain in his thumb.<\/p>\n<p>Mets&#8217; fans certainly gave two thumbs down to\u200b news \u200bthat Lagares would not play, as the latest in the string of injuries for the Mets this season took a turn for the worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bLagares previously experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/thumb-ligament-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\">partial ligament tear<\/a> in his left thumb and had been attempting to play through the pain.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/baseball-injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\">baseball injury<\/a> such as a ligament tear makes hitting and throwing &#8211; two movements essential to the game &#8211; difficult and painful.<\/p>\n<p>Lagares will now undergo further diagnosis by team physicians to understand if the ligament injury has become more severe.<\/p>\n<p>If additional rest, icing and splinting does not improve the condition, ligament surgery will likely be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can add Juan Lagares to the heap of Mets players recently out of the line-up due to a thumb injury. \u200b \u200bOriginally thought to be a minor tear, recently injured outfield Juan Lagares&#8217; \u200bwas held out of Wednesday night&#8217;s game due to the pain in his thumb. Mets&#8217; fans certainly gave two thumbs down [&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\/5298"}],"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=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}