{"id":24801,"date":"2026-09-17T03:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T09:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=24801"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:04:52","slug":"falling-out-of-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/falling-out-of-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Out Of First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21364\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/sox-fire-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>After holding, at least, a share of the AL Central lead since July 4, the White Sox lost the division lead yesterday, losing to the Guardians 6-3 and falling a half game behind.\u00a0 On the plus side, they are still tied in the loss column and do hold the tiebreaker with the Guardians, so it is not completely bleak.\u00a0 With just ten games remaining in the regular season, they will look to turn around a losing trend that has lasted over a month now, going 19-24 since the start of August.\u00a0 They start a four-game series at home against the Tigers tonight, while the Guardians start a three-game set at home against the A&#8217;s on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After holding, at least, a share of the AL Central lead since July 4, the White Sox lost the division lead yesterday, losing to the Guardians 6-3 and falling a half game behind.\u00a0 On the plus side, they are still tied in the loss column and do hold the tiebreaker with the Guardians, so it [&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":[123,9687,230,49],"class_list":["post-24801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-guardians","tag-tigers","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801","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=24801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24805,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801\/revisions\/24805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}