{"id":9098,"date":"2014-09-29T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:02:23","slug":"shields-lester-to-start-wild-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/29\/shields-lester-to-start-wild-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Shields, Lester to start Wild Card game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/09\/IMG_1218.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1218.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nWhen the Oakland Athletics travel to take on the Kansas City Royals in Tuesday&#8217;s Wild Card game they will be facing James Shields. <\/p>\n<p>Royals manager Ned Yost has confirmed that Shields will start the game. At Kaufman Stadium this season Shields had a 3.51 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, and 76\/17 K\/BB ratio over 102 2\/3 innings. <\/p>\n<p>The Athletics will counter with in-season acquisition Jon Lester. Overall Lester was 16-11 with a 2.46 ERA between Oakland and Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Oakland Athletics travel to take on the Kansas City Royals in Tuesday&#8217;s Wild Card game they will be facing James Shields. Royals manager Ned Yost has confirmed that Shields will start the game. At Kaufman Stadium this season Shields had a 3.51 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, and 76\/17 K\/BB ratio over 102 2\/3 innings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098","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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9099,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}