{"id":4961,"date":"2012-04-16T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2012-04-14T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T16:40:54","slug":"the-biggest-offensive-threat-in-the-national-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/04\/the-biggest-offensive-threat-in-the-national-league\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest offensive threat in the National League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7913matt-kemp-dodgers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7913matt-kemp-dodgers-800x474.jpg\" alt=\"major league baseball national league\" title=\"matt kemp los angeles dodgers\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7913matt-kemp-dodgers-800x474.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7913matt-kemp-dodgers-250x148.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7913matt-kemp-dodgers.jpg 1819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Kemp didn&#8217;t win the National League MVP last year, but that isn&#8217;t because he wasn&#8217;t the best. He came in second in the voting because he played for the Dodgers, and the Dodgers didn&#8217;t make the playoffs. On this evening, Kemp went 2 for 4 and scored a run. But on this pitch, a fastball from Jeff Karstens of the Pittsburgh Pirates, he swung&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7914matt-kemp-dodgers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7914matt-kemp-dodgers-800x497.jpg\" alt=\"matt kemp swings and misses los angeles dodgers\" title=\"matt kemp dodgers\" width=\"800\" height=\"497\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7914matt-kemp-dodgers-800x497.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7914matt-kemp-dodgers-250x155.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/124_7914matt-kemp-dodgers.jpg 1736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Kemp didn&#8217;t win the National League MVP last year, but that isn&#8217;t because he wasn&#8217;t the best. He came in second in the voting because he played for the Dodgers, and the Dodgers didn&#8217;t make the playoffs. On this evening, Kemp went 2 for 4 and scored a run. But on this pitch, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,11,10],"tags":[164,163,130,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}