{"id":12883,"date":"2017-09-20T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2017-09-13T19:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T01:46:41","slug":"looking-ahead-to-next-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/looking-ahead-to-next-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead To Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/all-time-playoff-team-records\/baseballs3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8806\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8806\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3.jpg\" alt=\"baseballs3\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3.jpg 405w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/baseballs3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>Major League Baseball released their tentative 2018 schedule last week. \u00a0While the local squads have differing goals in mind as 2017 winds down, with the Cubs looking to repeat as World Series champions and the White Sox playing out the string in year one of their rebuild, it&#8217;s time to turn our attention to next summer for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox open their season on the road in Kansas City on March 29 against the Royals, and then open the home portion of the campaign a week later against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The interleague schedule pits the White Sox against the NL Central, with trips to St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati and home series against the Pirates, Cardinals, and the Brewers. \u00a0The rivalry with their north side foes continues with a 3 game series at Wrigley Field in May and then moving back to the south side in late September.<\/p>\n<p>The season ends with a 6 game homestand against the Cubs and Indians before heading to Minnesota for the final weekend.\u00a0 Year two of the rebuild can see the White Sox playing spoiler down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the north side, the Cubs open the season down in Miami on March 29. \u00a0They kick off the home portion of their schedule on April 9 against the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The interleague schedule pits the Cubs against the AL Central, with trips to Cleveland, Kansas City, and Detroit and home series against the Indians, Twins, and the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs end the year with a 7 game homestand against the Pirates and the Cardinals, likely challengers for the NL Central crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball released their tentative 2018 schedule last week. \u00a0While the local squads have differing goals in mind as 2017 winds down, with the Cubs looking to repeat as World Series champions and the White Sox playing out the string in year one of their rebuild, it&#8217;s time to turn our attention to next [&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":[6980,121,57,120,115,2244,112,126,230,118,49,595],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-2016-world-series","tag-brewers","tag-cardinals","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-royals","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","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=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12884,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/12884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}