{"id":8398,"date":"2014-07-03T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2014-07-03T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:20:14","slug":"giants-moving-hunter-pence-to-leadoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/03\/giants-moving-hunter-pence-to-leadoff-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants moving Hunter Pence to leadoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/hunterpence.jpg\" alt=\"hunterpence\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3946\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/hunterpence.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/07\/hunterpence-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nHunter Pence is moving to the leadoff spot for the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>With Gregor Blanco in a slump, manager Bruce Bochy is trying different things with his lineup. One of the changes will be to move Pence up from the No. 2 spot to leadoff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need some help there,\u201d Bochy <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/giants\/2014\/07\/02\/sf-giants-bats-go-dead-again-in-loss-to-cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> following Wednesday&#8217;s loss to St. Louis. \u201cGregor has gotten a little passive. He\u2019s taken some good pitches. We may back him off a little to see if we can get something going early.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such a move figures to lower the number of RBI chances that Pence will have but could increase the number of runs scored. Ultimately it is about scoring runs for the Giants and Pence&#8217;s .295\/.355\/.467 line should be able to stabilize things at the top for the Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Pence is moving to the leadoff spot for the San Francisco Giants. With Gregor Blanco in a slump, manager Bruce Bochy is trying different things with his lineup. One of the changes will be to move Pence up from the No. 2 spot to leadoff. \u201cWe need some help there,\u201d Bochy said following Wednesday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,59,501,139],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-hunter-pence","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco-giants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8399,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/8399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}