{"id":2082,"date":"2018-08-27T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T03:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T03:12:59","slug":"nats-stats-and-awakened-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Nats, stats, and awakened bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown Washington Nationals in 2018 have been pretty hit and miss (I mean that in every sense of the word).<\/p>\n<p>The season looked so promising at the outset, followed by a much more sluggish reality with glimmers of hope here and there.<\/p>\n<p>They let go a few of their star players, then somehow pick up a couple great wins.<\/p>\n<p>They get shut out three games in a row, then explode for 15 runs (14 in two innings!) the next day.<\/p>\n<p>This is why you don&#8217;t try to predict baseball.<\/p>\n<p>And definitely don&#8217;t bet on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hometown Washington Nationals in 2018 have been pretty hit and miss (I mean that in every sense of the word). The season looked so promising at the outset, followed by a much more sluggish reality with glimmers of hope &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2082\">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-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","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=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}