{"id":7859,"date":"2013-10-05T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2013-10-05T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T14:43:18","slug":"alcs-game-2-starters-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"ALCS Game 2 Starters and thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed on the Oakland-Detroit game yesterday; one bad inning undid <strong>Bartolo Colon<\/strong>, who gave up 3 in the first and that was all Detroit needed as <strong>Max Scherzer<\/strong> took over.\u00a0 For the post-season we&#8217;re 8-for-9.\u00a0 Should have gone to Vegas \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Gut feeling on today&#8217;s games: always take the aces.\u00a0 <strong>David Price<\/strong> and <strong>Justin Verlander<\/strong> going today.\u00a0 Not much time for deeper analysis.\u00a0 Price has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/gl.cgi?id=priceda01&amp;t=p&amp;year=\">awesome against Boston<\/a> this year, especially at Fenway.\u00a0 Meanwhile Verlander&#8217;s disappointing season finished on a decent note, with two double-digit strikeout games to finish off the season.<\/p>\n<p>Look for Detroit to sweep in Oakland and for Tampa to leave Boston with a split.\u00a0 Both results seem rather acceptable: Boston had the upper hand on Tampa this year (winning 12 of 19 on the season series) but Price is tough to beat.\u00a0 And Oakland got healthy on Houston (winning 15 of 19 on the year) and might not be quite as good as its 96 wins indicates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed on the Oakland-Detroit game yesterday; one bad inning undid Bartolo Colon, who gave up 3 in the first and that was all Detroit needed as Max Scherzer took over.\u00a0 For the post-season we&#8217;re 8-for-9.\u00a0 Should have gone to Vegas \ud83d\ude42 Gut feeling on today&#8217;s games: always take the aces.\u00a0 David Price and Justin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2036],"tags":[343,223,44,1037],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-post-season","tag-bartolo-colon","tag-david-price","tag-justin-verlander","tag-max-scherzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","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=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}