{"id":1923,"date":"2013-04-05T20:43:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T00:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2013-04-05T20:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T00:43:39","slug":"barry-zito-pitches-gem-against-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/05\/barry-zito-pitches-gem-against-cardinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Zito pitches gem against Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1924\" alt=\"barryzito\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/barryzito.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/barryzito.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/barryzito-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barry Zito notched a win in his first start of the season Friday. Zito pitched seven innings allowing just three hits in the Giants 1-0 win against St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Affeldt and Sergio Romo pitched perfect eighth and ninth innings preserving the win.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations have been tempered over the past few seasons with Zito but a strong postseason and World Series win have raised them this year.<\/p>\n<p>The win moved the Giants to 3-1 and keeps them in a tie with the Rockies atop the NL West. Meanwhile the Cardinals fell to 1-3 and the bottom of the Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Zito notched a win in his first start of the season Friday. Zito pitched seven innings allowing just three hits in the Giants 1-0 win against St. Louis. Jeremy Affeldt and Sergio Romo pitched perfect eighth and ninth innings preserving the win. Expectations have been tempered over the past few seasons with Zito but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[269,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-barry-zito","9":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","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=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}