{"id":7194,"date":"2014-04-11T23:21:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T03:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2014-04-11T23:21:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T03:21:03","slug":"jim-thome-throws-out-awful-first-pitch-at-minor-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/11\/jim-thome-throws-out-awful-first-pitch-at-minor-league-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Thome throws out awful first pitch at minor league game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/thomepitch.jpg\" alt=\"thomepitch\" width=\"631\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/thomepitch.jpg 631w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/thomepitch-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><br \/>\nFuture MLB Hall of Famer Jim Thome spent much of his career at first base or DH. On Friday night Thome threw out the first pitch for the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time All-Star&#8217;s ceremonial pitch sailed high and outside and produced laughter even from Thome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eGIzwk0vfvY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thome had 2,328 hits in his big league career with 612 home runs. Thome last played in the major leagues in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future MLB Hall of Famer Jim Thome spent much of his career at first base or DH. On Friday night Thome threw out the first pitch for the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. The five-time All-Star&#8217;s ceremonial pitch sailed high and outside and produced laughter even from Thome. Thome had 2,328 hits in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","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=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}