{"id":437868,"date":"2023-06-14T16:40:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437868"},"modified":"2023-06-14T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T20:40:14","slug":"houstons-lance-mccullers-jr-out-for-the-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/houstons-lance-mccullers-jr-out-for-the-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston&#8217;s Lance McCullers Jr. out for the campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Astros player Lance McCullers Jr. will not be able to play till the end of the current MLB campaign after having surgery on his right forearm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RHP Lance McCullers Jr. underwent surgery on Tuesday evening on his right forearm to repair the flexor tendon and remove a bone spur, Astros GM Dana Brown announced. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PTS6stV6U2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/PTS6stV6U2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Houston Astros (@astros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astros\/status\/1669064991217950736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MLB franchise reported that their pitcher had surgery to fix his flexor tendon and eliminate a bone spur. The estimation for his return will is next year.<\/p>\n<p>Lance didn&#8217;t play in the current season and has had this problem since 2021, and it got worse this year in February during Astros training before the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the problem occurred in February, McCullers Jr. did everything possible to be able to get back on the field,&#8221; Astros GM Dana Brown shared with the media. &#8220;Lance is a warrior, and I expect him for the next campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Astros player Lance McCullers Jr. will not be able to play till the end of the current MLB campaign after having surgery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16729,17863],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18539,19858,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The pitcher had surgery.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437868"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437868"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}