{"id":6972,"date":"2014-03-31T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6972"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:36:48","slug":"chicago-cubs-at-pittsburgh-pirates-opening-day-lineups-for-march-31-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/31\/chicago-cubs-at-pittsburgh-pirates-opening-day-lineups-for-march-31-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates: Opening Day lineups for March 31, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6974\" alt=\"franciscoliriano\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscoliriano.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscoliriano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscoliriano-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it too early to say &#8220;Wait til next year&#8221; for the Cubs?<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Cubs will start their season on the road playing against the Pittsburgh Pirates. While the Cubs were a cellar dweller last season the Pirates were a playoff team. Today former star Barry Bonds will be on hand as will Jim Leyland as they present the MVP Award to Andrew McCutchen and the manger of the year award to Clint Hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s Opening Day game between the Cubs and Pirates will get underway at 1:05 pm ET from PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Below you can find the lineups for both teams.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n<table id=\"sl-away-lineup-table\" summary=\"Cubs starting lineup for 03\/31\/2014\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th id=\"team-name\" rowspan=\"2\" colspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\"><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr id=\"466988\">\n<td scope=\"row\">1.<\/td>\n<td>Bonifacio, E, CF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"516809\">\n<td scope=\"row\">2.<\/td>\n<td>Lake, J, LF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"516770\">\n<td scope=\"row\">3.<\/td>\n<td>Castro, S, SS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"519203\">\n<td scope=\"row\">4.<\/td>\n<td>Rizzo, A, 1B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"592609\">\n<td scope=\"row\">5.<\/td>\n<td>Olt, M, 3B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"456078\">\n<td scope=\"row\">6.<\/td>\n<td>Castillo, W, C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"435625\">\n<td scope=\"row\">7.<\/td>\n<td>Schierholtz, N, RF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"446381\">\n<td scope=\"row\">8.<\/td>\n<td>Barney, D, 2B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"502188\">\n<td scope=\"row\">9.<\/td>\n<td>Samardzija, J, P<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- medium in story ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 468px; height: 15px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6139055459619465\" data-ad-slot=\"9984433490\"><\/ins><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pirates<\/p>\n<table id=\"sl-home-lineup-table\" summary=\"Pirates starting lineup for 03\/31\/2014\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th id=\"team-name\" rowspan=\"2\" colspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\"><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr id=\"516782\">\n<td scope=\"row\">1.<\/td>\n<td>Marte, S, LF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"501983\">\n<td scope=\"row\">2.<\/td>\n<td>Snider, T, RF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"457705\">\n<td scope=\"row\">3.<\/td>\n<td>McCutchen, A, CF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"476883\">\n<td scope=\"row\">4.<\/td>\n<td>Alvarez, P, 3B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"431145\">\n<td scope=\"row\">5.<\/td>\n<td>Martin, R, C<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"435522\">\n<td scope=\"row\">6.<\/td>\n<td>Walker, N, 2B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"448170\">\n<td scope=\"row\">7.<\/td>\n<td>Ishikawa, T, 1B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"474568\">\n<td scope=\"row\">8.<\/td>\n<td>Mercer, J, SS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"434538\">\n<td scope=\"row\">9.<\/td>\n<td>Liriano, F, P<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too early to say &#8220;Wait til next year&#8221; for the Cubs? The Chicago Cubs will start their season on the road playing against the Pittsburgh Pirates. While the Cubs were a cellar dweller last season the Pirates were a playoff team. Today former star Barry Bonds will be on hand as will Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","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=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6975,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions\/6975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}