{"id":11124,"date":"2018-02-22T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2018-02-22T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:41:10","slug":"shohei-ohtani-to-make-spring-training-debut-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/02\/22\/shohei-ohtani-to-make-spring-training-debut-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani to make Spring Training debut Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/ohtani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11125\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/ohtani.jpg 800w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/ohtani-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/02\/ohtani-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Angels import Shoehei Ohtani is expected to make his Spring Training debut as a pitcher on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels are playing a Cactus League game against the Brewers in which the 23-year-old is believed to be pitching two innings in his first live appearance in a big league uniform. Ohtani should see some action as a hitter later next week. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shohei Ohtani will likely make his Cactus League debut Saturday. The Angels will host Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pedro Moura (@pedromoura) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pedromoura\/status\/966726163560251397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All of the Angels spring games should be available via outlets such as local tv or MLB.tv for those wanting to watch the Japanese star in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels import Shoehei Ohtani is expected to make his Spring Training debut as a pitcher on Saturday. The Angels are playing a Cactus League game against the Brewers in which the 23-year-old is believed to be pitching two innings in his first live appearance in a big league uniform. Ohtani should see some action as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[114,501,1049],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-los-angeles-angels","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-shohei-ohtani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124","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=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11126,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions\/11126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}