{"id":10794,"date":"2017-09-28T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2017-09-28T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T18:18:09","slug":"ervin-santana-luis-severino-to-start-wild-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/09\/28\/ervin-santana-luis-severino-to-start-wild-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ervin Santana, Luis Severino to start Wild Card game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/ervinsantana.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10795\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/ervinsantana.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2017\/09\/ervinsantana-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nErvin Santana will start Tuesday&#8217;s AL Wild Card game for the Twins, opposing him on the mound will be Luis Severino of the Yankees. <\/p>\n<p>Santana was no-doubt the choice for the Twins posting a 16-8 record, 3.28 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, and 167\/61 K\/BB ratio over 211 1\/3 innings during the regular season. He threw five scoreless innings in his final start Thursday against the Indians. <\/p>\n<p>Severino has pitched 193 1\/3 innings totaling a 14-6 record, 2.98 ERA and a 1.040 WHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Twins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Twins<\/a> RHP Ervin Santana will start the wild-card game against either New York or Boston.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Withers (@twithersAP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twithersAP\/status\/913449580397760519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ervin Santana will start Tuesday&#8217;s AL Wild Card game for the Twins, opposing him on the mound will be Luis Severino of the Yankees. Santana was no-doubt the choice for the Twins posting a 16-8 record, 3.28 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, and 167\/61 K\/BB ratio over 211 1\/3 innings during the regular season. He threw five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[68,503,134,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ervin-santana","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10796,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}