{"id":1986,"date":"2013-04-07T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2013-04-07T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:48:47","slug":"kyuji-fujikawa-to-replace-marmol-as-cubs-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/04\/07\/kyuji-fujikawa-to-replace-marmol-as-cubs-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyuji Fujikawa to replace Marmol as Cubs closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1987\" alt=\"kyujifujikawa\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/04\/kyujifujikawa-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following Saturday&#8217;s meltdown the Chicago Cubs have removed Carlos Marmol from the closers role. Marmol blew a save after allowing two solo home runs in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Marmol will be replaced by 32-year-old Kyuji Fujikawa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PWSullivan\/status\/320906591593451521\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to Chicago Tribune writer Paul Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the eighth inning the Cubs held a 5-1 lead over the Braves. Fujikawa pitched the eighth inning for the Cubs but walked a batter and gave up four hits allowing the Braves to cut the lead to one. An inning later Marmol allowed solo home runs to B.J. and Justin Upton.<\/p>\n<p>Marmol struggled in each of his three outings this season. In 1 2\/3 innings Marmol had allowed five earned runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Saturday&#8217;s meltdown the Chicago Cubs have removed Carlos Marmol from the closers role. Marmol blew a save after allowing two solo home runs in the inning. Marmol will be replaced by 32-year-old Kyuji Fujikawa according to Chicago Tribune writer Paul Sullivan. Entering the eighth inning the Cubs held a 5-1 lead over the Braves. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[222,153,116],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-marmol","9":"tag-chicago-cubs","10":"tag-kyuji-fujikawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","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=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}