{"id":51,"date":"2012-10-02T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-10-02T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T01:07:42","slug":"adan-greenberg-strikes-out-in-second-chance-at-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/02\/adan-greenberg-strikes-out-in-second-chance-at-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Greenberg strikes out in second chance at-bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-52\" title=\"adamgreenberg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg.jpg 480w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/adamgreenberg-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>The second at-bat in the career of Adam Greenberg occurred Tuesday night. Greenberg signed a one day contract with the Florida Marlins after an online petition was started in order to get him a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>In Greenberg&#8217;s second chance he whiffed on three pitches from New York Mets starter RA Dickey.<\/p>\n<p>Dickey is a 20 game winner this season and is considered a leading candidate for the NL Cy Young award.<\/p>\n<p>Following the strike out Greenberg gave a bit of a smile and received a standing ovation from the Marlins crowd. Greenberg did not go out to play defense as Scott Cousins took his place in the field.<\/p>\n<p>You can view avideo of the at-bat here. Until MLB removes it from Youtube<\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSrhl5KrEX0&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Greenberg&#8217;s first at-bat occurred seven years ago. One pitch into the at-bat he was hit in the back of the head by a fastball from Florida Marlins pitcher Valerio de los Santos.<\/p>\n<p>He never recovered completely from the concussion he got and eventually faded from the minors to the independent leagues to out of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just magical\u2026 I couldn\u2019t be more excited\u201d says Adam Greenberg about his second chance at the big leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second at-bat in the career of Adam Greenberg occurred Tuesday night. Greenberg signed a one day contract with the Florida Marlins after an online petition was started in order to get him a second chance. In Greenberg&#8217;s second chance he whiffed on three pitches from New York Mets starter RA Dickey. Dickey is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[16],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adam-greenberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}