{"id":5139,"date":"2013-11-04T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2013-11-04T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:38:16","slug":"liriano-and-rivera-earn-comeback-player-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/04\/liriano-and-rivera-earn-comeback-player-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Liriano and Rivera earn comeback player of the year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5140\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5140\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/franciscoliriano.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/franciscoliriano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/franciscoliriano-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Francisco Liriano and Mariano Rivera have both earned honors for 2013 Comeback Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera earned the award in the American League after returning from a knee injury that cost him nearly all of the 2012 season. Rivera had a 2.11 ERA and notched 44 saves prior to retiring at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Liriano earned the honor for the National League. In 2013 Liriano had a 3.02 ERA with 163 strikeouts in 161 innings for the Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Liriano and Mariano Rivera have both earned honors for 2013 Comeback Player of the Year. Rivera earned the award in the American League after returning from a knee injury that cost him nearly all of the 2012 season. Rivera had a 2.11 ERA and notched 44 saves prior to retiring at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[110,503,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-francisco-liriano","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","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=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}