{"id":4515,"date":"2013-08-24T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2013-08-24T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T02:00:25","slug":"max-scherzer-picks-up-19th-win-by-blanking-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/24\/max-scherzer-picks-up-19th-win-by-blanking-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Scherzer picks up 19th win by blanking Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4517\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4517\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/maxscherzer.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/maxscherzer.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/maxscherzer-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Max Scherzer is now 19-1 after picking up a win in Saturday&#8217;s game against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer pitched six scoreless innings and struck out 11 Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old right-hander has a 2.73 ERA and a 0.91 WHIP. Scherzer allowed three hits and walked three while throwing 78 of 118 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n<p>This time a month ago Scherzer was sporting a 3.14 ERA but has put together a 1.33 ERA in his last six outings to lower the number to 2.73 which will help his chances of notching the AL Cy Young Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Max Scherzer is now 19-1 after picking up a win in Saturday&#8217;s game against the New York Mets. Scherzer pitched six scoreless innings and struck out 11 Mets. The 29-year-old right-hander has a 2.73 ERA and a 0.91 WHIP. Scherzer allowed three hits and walked three while throwing 78 of 118 pitches for strikes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,375],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-max-scherzer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","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=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}