{"id":5873,"date":"2012-10-04T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2025-07-18T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T01:33:41","slug":"oakland-as-meet-detroit-tigers-in-first-round-of-mlb-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2012\/10\/oakland-as-meet-detroit-tigers-in-first-round-of-mlb-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland A&#8217;s meet Detroit Tigers in first round of MLB playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5874\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1073-as.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5874\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/125_1073-as.jpg\" alt=\"don kelly\" title=\"Brandon McCarthy Don Kelly Kurt Suzuki Tim Welke Oakland A&#039;s\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Kelly of the Detroit Tigers strikes out against Brandon McCarthy of the Oakland A&#039;s<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/oakland\/>Oakland A&#8217;s<\/a> were alone in first place for a grand total of one day this season&#8211;the only day that counts, the final day. 162 games this season and where you sit in the standings means absolutely nothing for those first 161 days. <\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, A&#8217;s pitching will mow down Tiger hitting beginning this weekend just as they did when I saw them play back in May.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s game was very exciting. I watched the first 6 innings from RedZone Sports Bar N&#8217; Grill in Ashland between classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland A&#8217;s were alone in first place for a grand total of one day this season&#8211;the only day that counts, the final day. 162 games this season and where you sit in the standings means absolutely nothing for those first 161 days. Hopefully, A&#8217;s pitching will mow down Tiger hitting beginning this weekend just [&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],"tags":[161,164,130,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873"}],"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=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34288,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/34288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}