{"id":7592,"date":"2014-05-07T09:43:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2014-05-07T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:44:58","slug":"matt-williams-involved-in-police-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/05\/07\/matt-williams-involved-in-police-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Williams involved in police chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/mattwilliams.jpg\" alt=\"mattwilliams\" width=\"594\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7593\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/mattwilliams.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/05\/mattwilliams-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams was involved in a police chase Wednesday morning while doing his weekly radio spot with 106.7 the Fan.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was rear-ended by another driver who was trying to flee from the police. You can listen to audio of the invident below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/148342902&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry guys, I just had an accident \u2026 I got a police officer behind me and this guy\u2019s going to try to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really?&#8221; asked the host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy\u2019s running. He just ran right in the back of me,\u201d Williams said, still incredibly calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just got rear-ended by a guy in a car,\u201d Williams said. \u201cHold on. This guy\u2019s crashing into people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you okay?\u201d the radio host asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m good,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThere was a police car behind me, and a guy in a car and he tried to get by me and he just smoked me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams said he was driving to the ballpark when the accident happened. For those wondering he drives a Tahoe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe tried to get out of his car, and then he got around me, and then they\u2019re continuing to chase him,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams was involved in a police chase Wednesday morning while doing his weekly radio spot with 106.7 the Fan. Williams was rear-ended by another driver who was trying to flee from the police. You can listen to audio of the invident below. \u201cSorry guys, I just had an accident \u2026 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,735,501,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-matt-williams","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","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=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}