{"id":754,"date":"2007-08-18T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=754"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:53:38","slug":"bad-break-for-easley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Bad Break for Easley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well the all-odd infield as described below went out together for a second straight night Saturday but it\u2019ll be their last for awhile.\u00a0<strong>Damian Easley<\/strong>\u00a0stepped awkwardly while running and gruesomely rolled his left ankle in an event likely to sideline him for the rest of the regular season. Ever roll an ankle like that? It makes a\u00a0<em>noise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/hernandez-anderson\"><strong>Anderson Hernandez<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was recalled from AAA Sunday to take his place on the roster, arriving to find out the\u00a0<strong>No. 1\u00a0<\/strong>jersey he wore in previous visits to New York had been assigned to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castillo-luis\"><strong>Luis Castillo<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in his absence. The Mets roster has Hernandez dressed in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/4\"><strong>No. 4<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(bad news for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/johnson-ben\"><strong>Ben Johnson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0should\u00a0<em>he\u00a0<\/em>deign to return).<\/p>\n<p>A more pressing concern could be finding an acceptable right-handed pinch-hitter, preferably one who can play first base (among other positions), so as not to further compromise our oftentimes meager attack. Easley was one of the few guys on the team who\u2019d done almost no harm and\/or disappointing this season too. But I thought it was weird when Omar didn\u2019t come back after the trade deadline with a right-handed bench hitter, so I\u2019m pretty sure this merits a trade too.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime on Sunday\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alomar-sandy-jr\"><strong>Sandy Alomar Jr. 19<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was back for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\"><strong>Ramon Castro 11,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>whose bad back necessitated a DL stay. All as we swept a team for the first time since June and \u2014 can you believe this? \u2014 reached a new highwater mark at 17 over .500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the all-odd infield as described below went out together for a second straight night Saturday but it\u2019ll be their last for awhile.\u00a0Damian Easley\u00a0stepped awkwardly while running and gruesomely rolled his left ankle in an event likely to sideline him for the rest of the regular season. Ever roll an ankle like that? It makes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad Break for Easley&#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":[176,281,320,174,282],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anderson-hernandez","tag-damion-easley","tag-luis-castillo","tag-ramon-castro","tag-sandy-alomar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","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=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}