{"id":17272,"date":"2021-04-15T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17272"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:46:00","slug":"oh-no-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/oh-no-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh No-No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17273\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/rodon_nono-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Last December, after 6 years of injuries and unmet expectations, the White Sox cut ties with Carlos Rodon, their first round pick in the 2014 draft.\u00a0 On February 1, they brought him back, at a reduced rate, as back of the rotation insurance.\u00a0 After a strong spring, he beat our Reynaldo Lopez for the fifth starter&#8217;s spot.\u00a0 Last night, in his second start of the season, he was perfect through 25 hitters against the Indians and, after a hit batsman, ended up with the 20th no hitter in White Sox history.<\/p>\n<p>This should have been my first no hitter seen in person.\u00a0 But, and you knew there was going to be a but, life somehow got in the way.\u00a0 I had bought tickets to the entire first homestand, so that wasn&#8217;t the issue.\u00a0 Monday afternoon, I got my second vaccine shot and then headed down to Guaranteed Rate Field for that night&#8217;s game.\u00a0 Ironically, Rodon was scheduled to pitch Monday, but was scratched with a stomach bug.\u00a0 Tuesday, I was feeling the after-effects of the shot, the night out in the cold, or both, with a fuzzy head, chills, and body aches.\u00a0 I decided to skip Tuesday night&#8217;s game.\u00a0 By Wednesday morning, I was feeling pretty normal, but, with a forecast game-time temperature in the 40s, I decided to play it safe and stay home once again.\u00a0 A mistake that I will have to live with for the rest of my days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, after 6 years of injuries and unmet expectations, the White Sox cut ties with Carlos Rodon, their first round pick in the 2014 draft.\u00a0 On February 1, they brought him back, at a reduced rate, as back of the rotation insurance.\u00a0 After a strong spring, he beat our Reynaldo Lopez for the fifth [&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":[5574,8844,2501,6917,115,8035,9346,49],"class_list":["post-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-corona-virus","tag-draft","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-indians","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-vaccine","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","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=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}