{"id":8686,"date":"2015-09-11T07:34:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2015-09-10T06:55:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:55:35","slug":"looking-ahead-to-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/looking-ahead-to-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Ahead To Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3693\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg\" alt=\"MLB: Cincinnati Reds at Los Angeles Dodgers\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs.jpg 365w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/baseballs-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a>Major League Baseball released their tentative 2016 schedule earlier this week and, while the 2015 squad focuses on taking the second Wild Card slot, let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s on tap for next summer for the North Siders.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs open the season on April 5 on the road against the Angels, the first time they will start the year in inter-league play. \u00a0The home slate kicks off the following Monday with a night game against the Reds.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s inter-league slate is against the AL West, with the Rangers, Mariners, and Angels\u00a0making trips to Wrigley\u00a0Field, while the Cubs hit the road to visit the aforementioned Angels, A&#8217;s,\u00a0and Astros. \u00a0The club also has a 2 and 2 series with the White Sox during the last week of July.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs finish the season on the road against the Pirates and Reds, which should make for a great pennant race if\u00a0the team is once again in contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball released their tentative 2016 schedule earlier this week and, while the 2015 squad focuses on taking the second Wild Card slot, let&#8217;s take a look at what&#8217;s on tap for next summer for the North Siders. The Cubs open the season on April 5 on the road against the Angels, the first [&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":[123,110,113,120,124,2244,112,111,53,49],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-angels","tag-astros","tag-cubs","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-rangers","tag-reds","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","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=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}