{"id":11358,"date":"2018-09-11T12:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2018-09-11T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T16:44:23","slug":"phillies-continue-to-play-carlos-santana-at-3b-in-effort-for-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2018\/09\/11\/phillies-continue-to-play-carlos-santana-at-3b-in-effort-for-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies continue to play Carlos Santana at 3B in quest for offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11359\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/09\/carlossantana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/09\/carlossantana.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2018\/09\/carlossantana-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Phillies are finding themselves fading in the NL East race and manager Gabe Kapler has been changing up his lineup in an attempt to change the team&#8217;s fate.<\/p>\n<p>It was not too long ago that the Phillies were in first place in the NL East, now the team is 5 games behind the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>One of Kapler&#8217;s new favorite things to do is play Carlos Santana at third base. This allows for the Phillies to get additional at-bats for Justin Bour. The move also pushes Asdrubal Cabrera to shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game of a doubleheader, Santana will be playing his fourth game at third base out of the Phillies last five games. This comes after four years of not appearing at the position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies are finding themselves fading in the NL East race and manager Gabe Kapler has been changing up his lineup in an attempt to change the team&#8217;s fate. It was not too long ago that the Phillies were in first place in the NL East, now the team is 5 games behind the Braves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[954,503,501,109],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-santana","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","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=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}