{"id":196,"date":"2008-09-25T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-09-25T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T16:46:00","slug":"smart-at-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/09\/25\/smart-at-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart At-Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only want to talk about one specific at-bat here. \u00a0It happened in the 9th inning, while Ryan Church was at bat. \u00a0I was watching the defense and I saw before the final pitch that the second baseman and shortstop had moved in dramatically, to the front edge of the dirt. \u00a0I was curious why, but then I realized. \u00a0They were setting up Church for a ground ball with the bases load. \u00a0Sure enough, ground ball, fielded, throw home for the force. \u00a0Couldn&#8217;t someone in the dugout, or Church himself, seen this and adjusted accordingly? \u00a0I&#8217;m not a baseball player but that made me see the Mets as overmatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only want to talk about one specific at-bat here. \u00a0It happened in the 9th inning, while Ryan Church was at bat. \u00a0I was watching the defense and I saw before the final pitch that the second baseman and shortstop had moved in dramatically, to the front edge of the dirt. \u00a0I was curious why, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/09\/25\/smart-at-bats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smart At-Bats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[568,567,305,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}