{"id":3434,"date":"2013-07-05T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2013-07-05T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T00:10:06","slug":"mark-appel-makes-first-minor-league-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/05\/mark-appel-makes-first-minor-league-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Appel makes first minor league start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3437\" alt=\"markappel\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/markappel.png\" width=\"523\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/markappel.png 523w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/markappel-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Appel made his pro debut on Friday pitching two innings of work for Class-A Tri City. In the outing Appel allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits.<\/p>\n<p>Appel&#8217;s performance came with mixed results. The 21-year-old right hander struck out one and did not issue a walk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/T7LaXyZ2lI\">http:\/\/t.co\/T7LaXyZ2lI<\/a> #1 pick Mark Appel first pitch of his debut. (Was a triple) Joseph L. Bruno Stadium <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ValleyCats&amp;src=hash\">#ValleyCats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 K @ t i e (@KTesque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KTesque\/statuses\/353292570283085827\">July 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Astros drafted Appel with the first overall pick in this years draft. Appel was given a $6.35 million bonus after being drafted. He threw 106 1\/3 innings this year with Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>Appel is expected to reach Double-A at some point this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Appel made his pro debut on Friday pitching two innings of work for Class-A Tri City. In the outing Appel allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits. Appel&#8217;s performance came with mixed results. The 21-year-old right hander struck out one and did not issue a walk. http:\/\/t.co\/T7LaXyZ2lI #1 pick Mark Appel first pitch [&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":[389],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-3434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-mark-appel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","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=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}