{"id":6803,"date":"2025-05-07T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6803\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:48:12","slug":"giants-star-kazuma-okamoto-expected-to-miss-extended-period-with-elbow-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6803\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants star Kazuma Okamoto expected to miss extended period with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yomiuri Giants star slugger Kazuma Okamoto will likely be out of action for an extended period after suffering a left elbow injury in a collision with the Hanshin Tigers\u2019 Takumu Nakano during Tuesday night\u2019s game at Tokyo Dome.<\/p>\n<p>The two players crashed into each other as Okamoto attempted to make a catch at first base while Nakano was running down the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants said Okamoto suffered muscle damage in his left elbow. Manager Shinnosuke Abe met with reporters shortly after his team\u2019s 7-1 loss and said Okamoto would likely be sidelined for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yomiuri Giants star slugger Kazuma Okamoto will likely be out of action for an extended period after suffering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,3685,2353,2352,3583],"class_list":{"0":"post-6803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kazuma-okamoto","10":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","11":"tag-npb","12":"tag-yomiuri-giants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114464273486481481","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}