{"id":8620,"date":"2014-07-26T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T02:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2014-07-26T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T02:50:18","slug":"a-j-pierzynski-records-three-hits-in-cardinals-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/07\/26\/a-j-pierzynski-records-three-hits-in-cardinals-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"A.J. Pierzynski records three hits in Cardinals debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/ajpierzynski1.jpg\" alt=\"ajpierzynski\" width=\"594\" height=\"559\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8621\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/ajpierzynski1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/ajpierzynski1-300x282.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/07\/ajpierzynski1-240x225.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nCatcher A.J. Pierzynski had a strong debut with the St. Louis Cardinals recording three hits in a 6-3 win over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Pierzynski, 37, recorded singles in his final three at-bats providing a insurance run in the seventh inning after signing with the Cardinals earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People that played with me and know me, know what I&#8217;m about and that&#8217;s all that really matters,&#8221; Pierzynski said.<\/p>\n<p>With Yadier Molina out with a thumb injury, Pierzynski will see plenty of action behind the plate. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to end with the bad taste I had in my mouth in Boston,&#8221; Pierzynski said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to end like that. I didn&#8217;t want to end the season. I didn&#8217;t want to end anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catcher A.J. Pierzynski had a strong debut with the St. Louis Cardinals recording three hits in a 6-3 win over the Chicago Cubs. Pierzynski, 37, recorded singles in his final three at-bats providing a insurance run in the seventh inning after signing with the Cardinals earlier in the day. &#8220;People that played with me and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","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=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8622,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}