{"id":1749,"date":"2017-10-25T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T04:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T04:41:50","slug":"world-series-brings-it-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"World Series brings it old school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help it&#8230; I&#8217;ve got Dodger fever this World Series. Let&#8217;s face it, they were the only team among baseball&#8217;s &#8220;final four&#8221; that didn&#8217;t eliminate one of the teams I actually\u00a0like and follow during the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>To last night&#8217;s game, I could have sworn I was watching a sandy-haired Sandy Koufax on the mound. Kershaw&#8217;s gem was outdone perhaps only by two relievers who were Dodger dominant as they have been all postseason. The way their bullpen can shut down a game really is ridiculous and completely unfair, considering they&#8217;ve also got Kershaw, Hill,\u00a0and Darvish.<\/p>\n<p>But the most amazing stat from yesterday&#8217;s game?<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw&#8217;s 11 Ks? First-pitch home run from Chris Taylor?<\/p>\n<p>How about two hours and 28 minutes?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously? A World Series game? Two hours and 28 minutes? Fox didn&#8217;t know what to do with themselves between the end of the game and its cut to\u00a011:00 newscasts. (More shots of David Ortiz&#8217;s shoes.)<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles (and elsewhere on the west coast) the game ended only a few minutes after 7:30. <em>Ended<\/em> a few minutes after 7:30. It was practically a day game.<\/p>\n<p>Day game? Dodgers? Dominating pitching? Was that Walt Alston I saw in the dugout?<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;ve got Drysdale going\u00a0today it&#8217;s not just Game One that&#8217;s going to be short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help it&#8230; I&#8217;ve got Dodger fever this World Series. Let&#8217;s face it, they were the only team among baseball&#8217;s &#8220;final four&#8221; that didn&#8217;t eliminate one of the teams I actually\u00a0like and follow during the regular season. To last &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}