{"id":825,"date":"2009-06-20T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2009-06-20T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:10:48","slug":"brad-lidge-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lidge Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Manuel said <strong>Brad Lidge<\/strong> seems to be on schedule to come off the DL Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He said the closer&#8217;s right knee felt fine the day after he threw 42 pitches in his second bullpen session Thursday, and that he may throw again today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He&#8217;s got the natural soreness that he should have after throwing, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s anything to be alarmed about,&#8221; Manuel said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lidge will go to double-A Reading for a minor-league rehab assignment tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Asked if he expected Lidge to join the team in Tampa early next week, Manuel said, &#8220;Right now, I think so. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re hoping. I think so. We just have to see how it goes.&#8221; -philly.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well maybe a healthy Brad is what he needed all year to get back on track.\u00a0 And maybe that&#8217;s what this team has needed all year to kick it in gear.\u00a0 Amazing how we are still in 1st place after all of the woe&#8217;s that we have had this year.\u00a0 Lets hope Brad Lidge can come back healthy and ready to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuel said Brad Lidge seems to be on schedule to come off the DL Tuesday. He said the closer&#8217;s right knee felt fine the day after he&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia_phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.homeboyznetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}