{"id":2072,"date":"2018-08-17T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T04:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2018-08-17T08:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T04:08:38","slug":"sox-faaaar-out-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Sox faaaar out front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their loss last night the New York Yankees fell 10 1\/2 games back of the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox. Nothing to be ashamed of, really. The Yankees still have the second-best record\u00a0<em>in baseball<\/em>. That&#8217;s right. The Red Sox are 10 1\/2 games up on the world right now at 86-36.<\/p>\n<p>Know what they&#8217;d be if they played in the NL West? Twenty and a half games up. On second place.<\/p>\n<p>The best record in the NL actually belongs to the Chicago Cubs at 70-50. That&#8217;s 15 games back of the Red Sox. Say the Sox played .500 the rest of the way. For the Cubs to top them for best record in MLB they&#8217;d have to go 37-5 during that span.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the 1951 Giants went 37-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their loss last night the New York Yankees fell 10 1\/2 games back of the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox. Nothing to be ashamed of, really. The Yankees still have the second-best record\u00a0in baseball. That&#8217;s right. The Red Sox &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2072\">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-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}