{"id":4017,"date":"2013-07-29T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:15:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:15:49","slug":"brad-lidge-to-sign-one-day-contract-to-retire-in-phillies-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/07\/29\/brad-lidge-to-sign-one-day-contract-to-retire-in-phillies-uniform\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lidge to sign one-day contract to retire in Phillies uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-665\" alt=\"bradlidge\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradlidge.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradlidge.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/bradlidge-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Lidge spent four seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies. On Thursday the former Phillies closer will sign a one-day contract to retire as a member of the team.<\/p>\n<p>Lidge, 36, announced in December that he planned to retire.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Retired closer Brad Lidge will sign a 1-day contract Thursday with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Phillies&amp;src=hash\">#Phillies<\/a> and retire in their uniform, throwing out 1st pitch Thu.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNightengale\/statuses\/361867425211359232\">July 29, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his 11 year career Lidge pitched for Houston, Philadelphia and Washington.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AeW_oXsOo0I\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lidge was a key part of the 2008 Phillies who won the World Series finishing that year with 41 saves and a 1.95 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Lidge spent four seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies. On Thursday the former Phillies closer will sign a one-day contract to retire as a member of the team. Lidge, 36, announced in December that he planned to retire. Retired closer Brad Lidge will sign a 1-day contract Thursday with the #Phillies and retire in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}