{"id":2948,"date":"2013-06-02T18:15:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2013-06-02T18:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T22:15:18","slug":"orioles-spell-matt-wieters-name-wrong-on-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/06\/02\/orioles-spell-matt-wieters-name-wrong-on-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles spell Matt Wieters name wrong on plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2949\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2949\" alt=\"mattweiters\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/mattweiters.jpg\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/mattweiters.jpg 534w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/06\/mattweiters-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">credit: USA Today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Orioles catcher Matt Wieters hit a three-run home run last June that landed on Eutaw Street, just in front of the warehouse that is one of Camden Yards&#8217; defining features. The feat has been done 68 times in the 21-year history of Camden Yards.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the home run the Orioles place a plaque on the sidewalk listing the players name, team and distance of the shot. On Wieters&#8217; plaque the team spelled his name wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Wieters saw the mistake Sunday and rushed to inform the team&#8217;s coordinator of baseball information. The plaque reads &#8220;Matt Weiters&#8221; as someone forgot the whole i before e rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that,&#8221; Wieters said.<\/p>\n<p>No worries, though. Baltimore said it plans to correct the error.<\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe that the Orioles spelled Wieters name wrong after he has been selected to the last two All-Star teams. This season Wieters is hitting .237 with seven home runs and 32 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orioles catcher Matt Wieters hit a three-run home run last June that landed on Eutaw Street, just in front of the warehouse that is one of Camden Yards&#8217; defining features. The feat has been done 68 times in the 21-year history of Camden Yards. To celebrate the home run the Orioles place a plaque on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","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=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}