{"id":3423,"date":"2013-07-05T15:26:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T19:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2013-07-21T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T03:33:37","slug":"gymnist-shin-soo-ji-throws-eye-popping-first-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/05\/gymnist-shin-soo-ji-throws-eye-popping-first-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gymnist Shin Soo-Ji throws eye popping first pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3424\" alt=\"gymnist\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/gymnist.png\" width=\"629\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/gymnist.png 629w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/gymnist-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ceremonial first pitch in baseball is usually forgotten about shortly after it is complete. Those that are remembered are often done so for the wrong reason.<\/p>\n<p>Gymnist Shin Soo-Ji recently threw out the first pitch in a Korean game and lets just say this one is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vUHRttHl9Bo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wow. First of all I certain I lost my balance trying to figure out how she rotated her body like that, and then to top it off she actually hit a catchers mitt.<\/p>\n<p>Sure some of you will complain about it being a little high and outside but come on!<\/p>\n<p>Watch it numerous times if you need to, I did and I still am not quite sure what I just saw.<\/p>\n<p>And for those left wondering, she represented South Korea in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremonial first pitch in baseball is usually forgotten about shortly after it is complete. Those that are remembered are often done so for the wrong reason. Gymnist Shin Soo-Ji recently threw out the first pitch in a Korean game and lets just say this one is amazing. Wow. First of all I certain I [&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":[388],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-shin-soo-ji"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","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=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}