{"id":7005,"date":"2014-03-31T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2014-03-31T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:50:44","slug":"brewers-going-with-francisco-rodriguez-as-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/31\/brewers-going-with-francisco-rodriguez-as-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers going with Francisco Rodriguez as closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscorodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"franciscorodriguez\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscorodriguez.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/franciscorodriguez-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a 2-0 lead on Opening Day the Milwaukee Brewers went to the bullpen in the ninth inning and out emerged Francisco Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Signed to a one-year deal worth $3.25 million this spring, the now 32-year-old Rodriguez is already paying dividends for the Brewers team who is waiting for Jim Henderson to get his stuff back.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez allowed a hit and struck out two in his inning of work preserving a win for the Brewers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>K-Rod is the closer for now, RR says. They want to give Henderson time to get his stuff back. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Brewers&amp;src=hash\">#Brewers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamMcCalvy\/statuses\/450740905834577920\">March 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the save Rodriguez now has 305 for his career across 13 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 2-0 lead on Opening Day the Milwaukee Brewers went to the bullpen in the ninth inning and out emerged Francisco Rodriguez. Signed to a one-year deal worth $3.25 million this spring, the now 32-year-old Rodriguez is already paying dividends for the Brewers team who is waiting for Jim Henderson to get his stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[329,503,224,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-7005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-francisco-rodriguez","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","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=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7007,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}