{"id":4278,"date":"2013-08-07T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2013-08-07T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:10:02","slug":"braves-beat-nationals-again-run-streak-to-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/07\/braves-beat-nationals-again-run-streak-to-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves beat Nationals again, run streak to 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4279\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4279\" alt=\"Source: Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/uptonmccann.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/uptonmccann.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/uptonmccann-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have now won 13 games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night the Braves defeated the Washington Nationals for the third straight day. The Braves will take an off day on Thursday prior to opening up a home stand at Turner Field which will feature the Marlins, Phillies and Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Medlen won his third consecutive start to improve to 9-10 on the season with a 3.85 ERA. Medlen&#8217;s lone mistake in Wednesday&#8217;s game was a two run home run given up to Jayson Werth.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Upton continues to be on fire going 3-4 with a walk, double and a home run of his own. Upton drove in three and now has a 12-game hitting streak.<\/p>\n<p>Least we not forget that Craig Kimbrel notched his 36th save, and 26th in a row. Kimbrel holds a 1.22 ERA and a 0.95 WHIP on the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves have now won 13 games in a row. On Wednesday night the Braves defeated the Washington Nationals for the third straight day. The Braves will take an off day on Thursday prior to opening up a home stand at Turner Field which will feature the Marlins, Phillies and Nationals. Kris Medlen won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[28,270,10],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-justin-upton","10":"tag-kris-medlen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}