{"id":9204,"date":"2013-08-16T09:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=9204"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T13:53:18","slug":"kurt-busch-throws-put-first-pitch-at-rockies-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2013\/08\/16\/kurt-busch-throws-put-first-pitch-at-rockies-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Busch throws out first pitch at Rockies game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" alt=\"20130816-090125.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2013\/08\/20130816-090125.jpg\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" \/><br \/>\nKurt Busch threw out the first pitch for Wednesdays game between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts Busch \u2013 driver of the No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet \u2013 zipped the pitch right down the center of the plate.<\/p>\n<p>This is hardly the first time that Busch has thrown out the first pitch at a baseball game but the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion described it as one of his better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had some pitches in the past go high, go wide but today at Coors field I had the heat and put it in the strike zone,\u201d explained Busch. \u201cIt was a relief &#8212; the last thing you want to do is embarrass yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Busch is 11th in the Sprint Cup standings, only two points out of the top ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Busch threw out the first pitch for Wednesdays game between the Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres. By all accounts Busch \u2013 driver of the No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet \u2013 zipped the pitch right down the center of the plate. This is hardly the first time that Busch has thrown out the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-9204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}