{"id":12537,"date":"2017-06-26T19:59:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2017-06-26T19:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T01:59:49","slug":"56-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/56-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"56 Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/56-forever\/buehrleday\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12539\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/buehrleday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/buehrleday.jpg 720w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/buehrleday-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>On Saturday, the White Sox retired Mark Buehrle&#8217;s #56, making him the 12th player (including Jackie Robinson) to receive the honor. \u00a0Buehrle first came up during the 2000 season, working out of the bullpen for the eventual division champions. \u00a0He moved into the rotation the following season, and stayed there for the next 11 seasons. \u00a0During that time, there were numerous memorable appearances, many of which I was\u00a0privileged\u00a0to see in person.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 no-hitter against the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 perfect game against the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Winning Game 2 of the 2005 ALCS against the Angels, thanks to AJ Pierzynski\u2019s heads-up baserunning, and starting the streak of 4 straight complete games.<\/p>\n<p>The 1 hour 36 minute game against the Mariners in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The no look, through his legs flip to Paul Konerko on Opening Day 2010 against the Indians.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, his performance in the 2005 World Series, starting Game 2, getting a no decision, and coming in to pitch the 14th inning and earning the save in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>In White Sox annals, Buehrle is currently fifth all-time in strikeouts, sixth in games started, and eighth in wins and innings pitched. \u00a0More importantly, he is number one in the hearts of an appreciative fan base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the White Sox retired Mark Buehrle&#8217;s #56, making him the 12th player (including Jackie Robinson) to receive the honor. \u00a0Buehrle first came up during the 2000 season, working out of the bullpen for the eventual division champions. \u00a0He moved into the rotation the following season, and stayed there for the next 11 seasons. [&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":[78,300,2790,110,115,5582,124,86,127,111,255,49],"class_list":["post-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2005-world-series","tag-a-j-pierzynski","tag-alcs","tag-angels","tag-indians","tag-jackie-robinson","tag-mariners","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-paul-konerko","tag-rangers","tag-rays","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","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=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}