{"id":8697,"date":"2014-08-02T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2014-08-02T22:06:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T02:06:29","slug":"jon-lester-wins-as-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/02\/jon-lester-wins-as-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Lester wins A&#8217;s debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8698\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester1.jpg\" alt=\"jonlester\" width=\"594\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/jonlester1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Newly acquired starting pitcher Jon Lester has already played dividends for the Oakland Athletics earning a win in his first start with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Lester allowed three runs on nine hits in 6 2\/3 innings of work against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics provided Lester with a huge lead early and the left hander coasted from there before running into trouble in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Lester is now 11-7 with a 2.59 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP. Up next for Lester is Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Yoenis Cespedes t-shirts were not enough to distract Lester. The Athletics chose to give up t-shirts of Cespedes despite his trade to Boston for Lester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly acquired starting pitcher Jon Lester has already played dividends for the Oakland Athletics earning a win in his first start with the team. Lester allowed three runs on nine hits in 6 2\/3 innings of work against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday. The Athletics provided Lester with a huge lead early and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,470,501,272],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-jon-lester","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-oakland-athletics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","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=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}