{"id":1855,"date":"2013-04-01T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:57:19","slug":"white-sox-win-opener-behind-sale-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/01\/white-sox-win-opener-behind-sale-and-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox win opener behind Sale and Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" alt=\"chrissale\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chrissale.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chrissale.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/chrissale-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Chicago White Sox will depend on starting pitcher Chris Sale to anchor their rotation in 2013. Tyler Flowers will also need to be a force if the team is to contend. They got both on Monday, winning their opener for the first time since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>A 17 game winner last season, the White Sox got 7 2\/3 innings from Sale. In the fifth inning a solo home run off the bat of Flowers gave the White Sox a 1-0 lead and that is exactly how things ended.<\/p>\n<p>Relievers Matt Thornton and Addison Reed filled in the other 1 1\/3 innings as the White Sox defeated the Royals 1-0. Last season the White Sox were 6-12 against Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will meet again on Wednesday. Jake Peavy will take to the bump for the White Sox while Ervin Santana pitches for the Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago White Sox will depend on starting pitcher Chris Sale to anchor their rotation in 2013. Tyler Flowers will also need to be a force if the team is to contend. They got both on Monday, winning their opener for the first time since 2005. A 17 game winner last season, the White Sox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,229,264],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-sale","tag-tyler-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}