{"id":23282,"date":"2025-09-18T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:37:20","slug":"back-to-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/back-to-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To The Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23283\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-cubsclinch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-cubsclinch.jpg 615w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-cubsclinch-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-cubsclinch-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/>For the first time since 2020, the Cubs are heading back to the postseason.\u00a0 They clinched their spot in the playoffs yesterday, defeating the Pirates 8-4.\u00a0 While they are only the third NL team to qualify, they are still five games behind the Brewers in the NL Central and look like they will be the top Wild Card heading into October.\u00a0 If the season ended today, they would host the Padres in the Wild Card series at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2020, the Cubs are heading back to the postseason.\u00a0 They clinched their spot in the playoffs yesterday, defeating the Pirates 8-4.\u00a0 While they are only the third NL team to qualify, they are still five games behind the Brewers in the NL Central and look like they will be the [&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":[121,120,112,5569,595],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-cubs","tag-pirates","tag-wild-card","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","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=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23284,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}