{"id":18261,"date":"2018-04-05T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2022-06-04T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:36:38","slug":"magical-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/magical-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60035031@N06\/27382913968\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Easy call\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/27382913968_6e75588005_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" alt=\"Easy call\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>@RADickey43<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/2012-nl-cy-young-award-winner-r-a-dickey\/>R.A. Dickey<\/a> has been extremely mediocre during his 16 years in major league baseball. He&#8217;s a .500 pitcher with an ERA a bit above 4. In 2012, however, he had a season that was anything but mediocre. He won the National League Cy Young award by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>He came into the game, pictured above, with an 11-1 record and 2.00 ERA. He was on a roll, having won his prior 9 games&#8211;3 by shutout. He had struck out 25 batters in his prior two starts, and at least 8 in each of his prior 7 starts.<\/p>\n<p>This game, against the Yankees, did not go his way (other than this score of his). The Mets lost, although Dickey didn&#8217;t take the loss. He rebounded, though, and threw a shutout in his next outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@RADickey43 R.A. Dickey has been extremely mediocre during his 16 years in major league baseball. He&#8217;s a .500 pitcher with an ERA a bit above 4. In 2012, however, he had a season that was anything but mediocre. He won the National League Cy Young award by a landslide. He came into the game, pictured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[395,82,415,410,382,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25694,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions\/25694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}