{"id":14291,"date":"2017-08-03T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14291"},"modified":"2017-08-03T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:45:53","slug":"were-not-exactly-roaring-into-the-big-chicago-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=14291","title":{"rendered":"We’re not exactly roaring into the big Chicago Series…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lets hope $210M man isn’t out for much longer. Photo via sportingnews.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Scherzer<\/strong> hurting, Strasburg<\/strong> out (well, maybe out),\u00a0Ross<\/strong> done, Jackson<\/strong> up and down, our “spare” starter situation a sh*tshow. \u00a0And now suddenly the bats go quiet, scoring just 7 runs in three games against Miami (who has punted on yet another season), getting shut out in the process by a guy (Vance Worley<\/strong>) who looks like he literally ATE another human being inbetween the time we cut him after Spring Training and last night.<\/p>\n

Not exactly awe-inspiring heading into a Cubs series that pretty clearly is a preview of the NLDS that we’re going to have come October.<\/p>\n

And then just to add insult to injury, we hear that\u00a0Enny Romero<\/strong> is out with a “forearm” issue … which half the time turns into an “elbow” issue, which half the time turns into a “Tommy John” issue.<\/p>\n

Are you worried yet?<\/p>\n

Right now our announced starters for this series are Roark<\/strong>, TBD and TBD. \u00a0To go up against two of Chicago’s 3 best starters and their excellent offense. \u00a0It could get ugly if we’re calling back Fedde<\/strong> or throwing Jackson to the wolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scherzer hurting, Strasburg out (well, maybe out),\u00a0Ross done, Jackson up and down, our “spare” starter situation a sh*tshow. \u00a0And now suddenly the bats go quiet, scoring just 7 runs in three games against Miami (who has punted on yet another season), getting shut out in the process by a guy (Vance Worley) who looks like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14295,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14291\/revisions\/14295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}