{"id":75885,"date":"2015-06-10T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=62181"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:45:25","slug":"rick-vandenhurk-slated-to-pitch-for-softbank-hawks-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/rick-vandenhurk-slated-to-pitch-for-softbank-hawks-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick VandenHurk Slated To Pitch For Softbank Hawks This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-handed pitcher Rick VandenHurk could get his first start of the season against the Hiroshima Carp on June 14, the final day of interleague play. VandenHurk had been conditioning with the Hawks\u2019 minor league team because the major league club did not have enough foreign player slots to include him on the roster. With a four-day break after the end of interleague play, the Hawks could temporarily remove Jason Standridge, the probable starter for the June 13th matchup, from the lineup to make way for VandenHurk. VandenHurk, who is originally from the Netherlands, led the Korean league with 180 strikeouts and a 3.18 ERA last season before signing with the Hawks in the offseason. He missed the start of this year\u2019s minor league season with tightness is his left adductor muscle, but since his return, he has won five games and leads the minors in both ERA and strikeouts. Sho Iwasaki\u2019s name has also been floated as a potential starter, so it will be interesting to see what moves the team makes. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 6\/9<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62182\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62182\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62182\" alt=\"van den hurk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/van-den-hurk-e1433902896586.jpg?resize=640%2C960\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-62182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(C)SoftBank HAWKS<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-handed pitcher Rick VandenHurk could get his first start of the season against the Hiroshima Carp on June 14, the final day of interleague play. VandenHurk had been conditioning with the Hawks\u2019 minor league team because the major league club did not have enough foreign player slots to include him on the roster. With a four-day break after the end of interleague play, the Hawks could temporarily remove Jason Standridge, the probable starter for the June 13th matchup, from the lineup to make way for VandenHurk. VandenHurk, who is originally from the Netherlands, led the Korean league with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-75885","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-sports","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/75885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}