{"id":8747,"date":"2014-08-06T10:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:56:23","slug":"adam-dunn-makes-pitching-debut-white-sox-get-clobbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/06\/adam-dunn-makes-pitching-debut-white-sox-get-clobbered\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Dunn makes pitching debut, White Sox get clobbered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/adamdunn.jpg\" alt=\"adamdunn\" width=\"594\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8748\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/adamdunn.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/08\/adamdunn-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nDown 15-0 the Chicago White Sox placed Adam Dunn on the mound to start the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn was able to complete the inning allowing two hits, a walk and a run throwing 22 pitches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t laughed on a baseball field like that in a long time, ever since I was probably kicking dandelions, in my early teens,&#8221; said White Sox center fielder Adam Eaton of Dunn&#8217;s Major League pitching debut. &#8220;He had good sink, that&#8217;s all I can say. He was 80 mph but he had really good sink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=35109723&#038;topic_id=6479266&#038;width=600&#038;height=336&#038;property=mlb' width='600' height='336' frameborder='0'>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been begging for that for a while,&#8221; said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of Dunn taking the mound. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to give the fans what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down 15-0 the Chicago White Sox placed Adam Dunn on the mound to start the ninth inning. Dunn was able to complete the inning allowing two hits, a walk and a run throwing 22 pitches. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t laughed on a baseball field like that in a long time, ever since I was probably kicking dandelions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[656],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-adam-dunn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","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=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8749,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions\/8749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}