{"id":8520,"date":"2014-07-12T21:12:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8520"},"modified":"2014-07-12T21:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T01:12:14","slug":"carlos-gomez-struggles-to-break-bat-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/12\/carlos-gomez-struggles-to-break-bat-gif\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Gomez struggles to break bat (GIF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8521\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/gomezfail.gif\" alt=\"gomezfail\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/gomezfail.gif 500w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/gomezfail-300x169.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not long ago we all were poking fun at Bryce Harper for <a title=\"Bryce Harper fails to break bat over knee\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/06\/bryce-harper-fails-to-break-bat-over-knee\/\">failing to break<\/a> a bat. Carlos Gomez may have one upped him today, and not in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that the Milwaukee Brewers tried 8-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals, Gomez tried three times to break a bat over his knee following a strikeout. He finally slammed it into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez is headed to his second All-Star game this year. He currently has a .299 batting average to go with 14 home runs and 46 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago we all were poking fun at Bryce Harper for failing to break a bat. Carlos Gomez may have one upped him today, and not in a good way. In a game that the Milwaukee Brewers tried 8-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals, Gomez tried three times to break a bat over his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[479,503,224,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-carlos-gomez","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","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=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions\/8522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}