{"id":1524,"date":"2013-03-05T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-03-05T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:29:23","slug":"jeff-francis-moves-closer-to-rotation-spot-with-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/05\/jeff-francis-moves-closer-to-rotation-spot-with-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Francis moves closer to rotation spot with Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1525\" alt=\"jefffrancis\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/jefffrancis-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Francis moved closer to locking up a rotation spot with the Colorado Rockies with another scoreless performance on Tuesday,<\/p>\n<p>Francis, 32, has threw four scoreless innings allowing just a hit against the Cubs. The left handed Francis has now thrown nine scoreless innings and has not walked a batter in three spring appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has as many as three rotation spots up for grabs this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Francis made 24 starts with the Rockies last season finishing with a 6-7 record and a 5.58 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Francis moved closer to locking up a rotation spot with the Colorado Rockies with another scoreless performance on Tuesday, Francis, 32, has threw four scoreless innings allowing just a hit against the Cubs. The left handed Francis has now thrown nine scoreless innings and has not walked a batter in three spring appearances. Colorado [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}