{"id":37728,"date":"2025-04-02T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/dustin-may-helps-lead-dodgers-to-7-0-start-after-near-fatal-salad-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:13","slug":"dustin-may-helps-lead-dodgers-to-7-0-start-after-near-fatal-salad-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/dustin-may-helps-lead-dodgers-to-7-0-start-after-near-fatal-salad-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin May helps lead Dodgers to 7-0 start after near-fatal salad incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pitcher returned to action after injury and illness<\/li>\n<li>Dodgers off to best start for champion since 1933<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/los-angeles-dodgers\">Los Angeles Dodgers <\/a>moved to 7-0 on Tuesday night, equalling the 1933 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/new-york-yankees\">New York Yankees<\/a> for the best start to a season by a defending champion, behind a strong start from Dustin May, who was making history of his own.<\/p>\n<p>The pitcher spent all of last season rehabbing from a torn flexor tendon in his right arm and a life-threatening esophageal tear after eating a salad at dinner with his wife in Arizona. A piece of lettuce became caught in his throat and May sipped some water trying to clear it. He felt a painful sensation in his throat and stomach, and later learned the lettuce had perforated his esophageal tube.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/02\/dustin-may-salad-los-angeles-dodgers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher returned to action after injury and illness Dodgers off to best start for champion since 1933 The Los Angeles Dodgers moved to 7-0 on Tuesday night, equalling the 1933 New York Yankees for the best start to a season by a defending champion, behind a strong start from Dustin May, who was making history &#8230; <a title=\"Dustin May helps lead Dodgers to 7-0 start after near-fatal salad incident\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/dustin-may-helps-lead-dodgers-to-7-0-start-after-near-fatal-salad-incident\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dustin May helps lead Dodgers to 7-0 start after near-fatal salad incident\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}