{"id":8888,"date":"2014-08-20T00:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2014-08-20T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T04:28:18","slug":"joe-nathan-avoids-disaster-earning-26th-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/08\/20\/joe-nathan-avoids-disaster-earning-26th-save\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Nathan avoids disaster earning 26th save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7325\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7325\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/joenathan-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThose calling for Joe Nathan to be pulled from the closers job in Detroit got a little louder on Tuesday night as the 39-year-old nearly blew another save.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan retired the first two batters in the bottom of the 11th inning before giving up a single, a walk and an RBI single before retiring Sean Rodriguez via strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan blew a save on Aug. 9 at Toronto but has just one other blown save since the end of May. In 49 games this season Nathan owns a 5.28 ERA and a 1.61 WHIP to go with his 26 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those calling for Joe Nathan to be pulled from the closers job in Detroit got a little louder on Tuesday night as the 39-year-old nearly blew another save. Nathan retired the first two batters in the bottom of the 11th inning before giving up a single, a walk and an RBI single before retiring Sean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[66,425,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-8888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-joe-nathan","10":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888","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=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}