{"id":7710,"date":"2013-09-17T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T01:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7710"},"modified":"2013-09-17T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T01:28:23","slug":"11-games-over-500-4-games-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7710","title":{"rendered":"11 games over .500, 4 1\/2 games back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I gave up on this team in mid July.\u00a0 Told my buddies they didn&#8217;t have it.\u00a0 Still have the email to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Today they swept the best team in the NL throwing a guy who at one point was the worst qualified pitcher in the league by most statistical measures (<strong>Dan Haren<\/strong>) and throwing another guy who at one point this year was demoted out of the AAA rotation (<strong>Tanner Roark<\/strong>).\u00a0 Roark and Haren combined for 13 innings and gave up a combined total of 1 run and 5 hits.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>At what point do we say that Roark is more than just a fluke?\u00a0 He&#8217;s now thrown 41 2\/3 innings and given up 26 hits, 9 walks and 5 earned runs.\u00a0 And gotten 7 wins.\u00a0 As many as <strong>Stephen Strasburg<\/strong>, if you believe the &#8220;Win&#8221; statistic is indicative of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Is there actually a chance after this team has underperformed so badly for 130 games that they could possibly make a race out of this?\u00a0 Am I really going to check out the Reds&#8217; remaining schedule tomorrow to see how tough it is?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah I think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most part, I gave up on this team in mid July.\u00a0 Told my buddies they didn&#8217;t have it.\u00a0 Still have the email to prove it. Today they swept the best team in the NL throwing a guy who at one point was the worst qualified pitcher in the league by most statistical measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[983,38,77],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-dan-haren","tag-stephen-strasburg","tag-tanner-roark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710","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=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7712,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions\/7712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}