{"id":2318,"date":"2013-05-04T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2013-05-04T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T23:38:22","slug":"nationals-use-double-steal-in-ninth-to-beat-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/05\/04\/nationals-use-double-steal-in-ninth-to-beat-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals use double steal in ninth to beat Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2319\" alt=\"ryanzimmerman\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman.jpg\" width=\"676\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/05\/ryanzimmerman-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Nationals employed the double steal in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Pittsburgh 5-4 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After the double steal by Ryan Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche, Nationals outfielder Tyler Moore hit a sacrifice fly to score Zimmerman. In the bottom of the inning Rafael Soriano notched his 10th save of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The win came hours after manager Davey Johnson held a team meeting aimed to alleviate any pressure on the Nationals players.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Strasburg started the game for the Nationals, his first start since experiencing arm issues against Atlanta on Monday. In a back and forth game, Strasburg allowed four runs over seven innings on five hits while striking out eight batters.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in his second game since being activated from the disabled list Zimmerman finished the day 1-for-2 with a triple in addition to two walks. He was responsible for three of the Nationals five runs scored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals employed the double steal in the top of the ninth inning to defeat Pittsburgh 5-4 on Saturday. After the double steal by Ryan Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche, Nationals outfielder Tyler Moore hit a sacrifice fly to score Zimmerman. In the bottom of the inning Rafael Soriano notched his 10th save of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[313,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-2318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ryan-zimmerman","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}