{"id":8142,"date":"2014-06-09T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2014-06-09T15:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:04:50","slug":"matt-lecroy-eats-superstitious-banana-and-mayonnaise-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/06\/09\/matt-lecroy-eats-superstitious-banana-and-mayonnaise-sandwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt LeCroy eats superstitious banana and mayonnaise sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8143 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/06\/mattlecroy.jpg\" alt=\"mattlecroy\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the team needs a win or injuries arise Washington Nationals bullpen coach Matt LeCroy beings to eat.<\/p>\n<p>LeCroy enjoys a banana and mayonnaise sandwhich on white bread whenever the team needs him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people were hurting in the beginning, and we needed some big wins so I thought, \u2018I gotta go with the banana-and-mayonnaise,\u2019\u201d LeCroy told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/nationals-journal\/wp\/2014\/06\/09\/matt-lecroys-superstitious-banana-mayo-sandwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Washington Post<\/a>. The Nationals are 5-0 on days when he eats the sandwich before the game, a fact that the jovial LeCroy is proud of.<\/p>\n<p>LeCroy has no shame over his meal labeling it as &#8220;awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always ate \u2018em and everybody made fun of them,\u201d LeCroy said. \u201cIt\u2019s just kinda my go-to when we needed a win. I just started doing it, and it took off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the team needs a win or injuries arise Washington Nationals bullpen coach Matt LeCroy beings to eat. LeCroy enjoys a banana and mayonnaise sandwhich on white bread whenever the team needs him. \u201cA lot of people were hurting in the beginning, and we needed some big wins so I thought, \u2018I gotta go with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[781,20],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-matt-lecroy","9":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","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=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8144,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions\/8144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}