{"id":497,"date":"2005-04-27T20:53:31","date_gmt":"2005-04-27T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-11-29T20:54:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T20:54:19","slug":"ring-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Ring Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets abruptly released veteran reliever\u00a0<strong>Mike Matthews 27<\/strong>\u00a0on Monday and called up Norfolk lefty\u00a0<strong>Royce Ring\u00a0<\/strong>to the big club.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Ring, who arrived in the refreshing 2003 trade that sent\u00a0<strong>Roberto Alomar<\/strong>\u00a0to the White Sox, suited up Tuesday in\u00a0<strong>No. 22,<\/strong>\u00a0which last belonged to lefty\u00a0<strong>Al Leiter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As reported by Marty Noble at MLB.com, Ring said he won&#8217;t be confused with his predecessor: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a cutter, I&#8217;ll tell you that.&#8221; Over the weekend, a sore muscle put starter\u00a0<strong>Kaz Ishii 23<\/strong>\u00a0on the disabled list; in his place the Mets recalled\u00a0<strong>Jae Seo,<\/strong>\u00a0who remains in\u00a0<strong>No. 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets abruptly released veteran reliever\u00a0Mike Matthews 27\u00a0on Monday and called up Norfolk lefty\u00a0Royce Ring\u00a0to the big club.\u00a0Ring, who arrived in the refreshing 2003 trade that sent\u00a0Roberto Alomar\u00a0to the White Sox, suited up Tuesday in\u00a0No. 22,\u00a0which last belonged to lefty\u00a0Al Leiter. As reported by Marty Noble at MLB.com, Ring said he won&#8217;t be confused with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ring Rings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,122],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mike-matthews","tag-royce-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}