{"id":11075,"date":"2016-10-12T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11075"},"modified":"2016-10-12T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T01:10:51","slug":"heading-back-to-the-lcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/heading-back-to-the-lcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading Back To The LCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8916\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg\" alt=\"FlyTheW\" width=\"561\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW.jpg 561w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FlyTheW-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a>After an exciting 9th inning comeback in Game 4 of the NLDS to defeat the Giants, the Chicago Cubs are headed to the NLCS for the second consecutive year. \u00a0They await the winner of the Dodgers\/Nationals series and will host Game 1 of the NLCS on Saturday. \u00a0The Cubs, who last appeared in the World Series in 1945, have never won an NLCS, losing in 1984, 1989, 2003, and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs last faced the Dodgers in the post-season in the 2008 NLDS, losing in a three game sweep. \u00a0They&#8217;ve never faced the Nationals in post-season play, though Nationals manager Dusty Baker led the Cubs to the 2003 NLCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an exciting 9th inning comeback in Game 4 of the NLDS to defeat the Giants, the Chicago Cubs are headed to the NLCS for the second consecutive year. \u00a0They await the winner of the Dodgers\/Nationals series and will host Game 1 of the NLCS on Saturday. \u00a0The Cubs, who last appeared in the World [&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":[5919,120,116,4058,256,117,1646],"class_list":["post-11075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1945-world-series","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-dusty-baker","tag-giants","tag-nationals","tag-nlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11080,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11075\/revisions\/11080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}