{"id":1640,"date":"2013-03-16T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2013-03-16T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T02:43:35","slug":"chris-sale-to-start-opener-for-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/03\/16\/chris-sale-to-start-opener-for-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sale to start opener for White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1641\" alt=\"chrissale\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/chrissale.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/chrissale.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/03\/chrissale-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robin Ventura has chosen Chris Sale to take the mound when the Chicago White Sox start the regular season. Sale was a 17 game winner during the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a extension worth $32.5 million the soon to be 24-year-old left hander will be counted on to reproduce his 3.05 ERA and 192 strike outs from last season.<\/p>\n<p>After being named the White Sox opening day starter Sale allowed seven hits and five runs in a spring start against the Oakland A&#8217;s. Neither Sale or Ventura were concerned about the outing today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not worried about that,&#8221; Ventura said. &#8220;Velocity-wise, everything&#8217;s great. We&#8217;re getting toward the end of spring and he&#8217;s probably a little anxious to get going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox open the season at home hosting the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Ventura has chosen Chris Sale to take the mound when the Chicago White Sox start the regular season. Sale was a 17 game winner during the 2012 season. Signed to a extension worth $32.5 million the soon to be 24-year-old left hander will be counted on to reproduce his 3.05 ERA and 192 strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[181,229],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chicago-white-sox","9":"tag-chris-sale"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}