{"id":12304,"date":"2017-05-07T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2017-05-07T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T16:56:53","slug":"pitching-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/pitching-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/pitching-in\/c_mltdmxgaexjas\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12306\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C_MltdMXgAExjAs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C_MltdMXgAExjAs.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/C_MltdMXgAExjAs-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>With an already-taxed bullpen and a starting pitcher that lasted 1\/3 of an inning, Cubs manager Joe Maddon turned to catcher Miguel Montero to pitch the final frame of last night&#8217;s blowout loss to the Yankees. \u00a0Somehow, despite attending 842 major league baseball games prior to last night, this was the first time I had personally witnessed a position player taking the mound.<\/p>\n<p>While Montero was a little shaky, walking two batters and nearly hitting one, he did finish as the only Cub pitcher of the night to not give up a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an already-taxed bullpen and a starting pitcher that lasted 1\/3 of an inning, Cubs manager Joe Maddon turned to catcher Miguel Montero to pitch the final frame of last night&#8217;s blowout loss to the Yankees. \u00a0Somehow, despite attending 842 major league baseball games prior to last night, this was the first time I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,896,5172,51],"class_list":["post-12304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-joe-maddon","tag-miguel-montero","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12309,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions\/12309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}