{"id":12077,"date":"2021-04-11T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2021-04-11T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:09:36","slug":"tommy-milone-earns-goofy-three-inning-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2021\/04\/11\/tommy-milone-earns-goofy-three-inning-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Milone earns goofy three-inning save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12078\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone.jpg 990w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone-768x526.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone-218x150.jpg 218w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone-696x477.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2021\/04\/tommymilone-613x420.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Milone earned a three-inning save on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching in a game which had long been decided by the Blue Jays offense, Milone worked three effective innings striking out six while allowing just one hit.<\/p>\n<p>Milone&#8217;s team won the game 15-1 and his presence on the mound was a save thanks to baseball&#8217;s rule that a pitcher going three innings can earn a save regardless of the score of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Milone started the year with the Orioles going 1-4 with a 3.99 ERA before a trade to the Braves where he made three starts but produced a 14.90 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Signed by the Blue Jays in the offseason Milone can serve as a long-inning reliever or find his way into the rotation should a need arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Milone earned a three-inning save on Saturday night. Pitching in a game which had long been decided by the Blue Jays offense, Milone worked three effective innings striking out six while allowing just one hit. Milone&#8217;s team won the game 15-1 and his presence on the mound was a save thanks to baseball&#8217;s rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,114,800,95],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-12077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-los-angeles-angels","10":"tag-tommy-milone","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","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=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12079,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions\/12079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}