{"id":2915,"date":"2020-09-25T05:11:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2020-09-25T05:11:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:11:45","slug":"unbreakable-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2915","title":{"rendered":"Unbreakable records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much debate is had over the &#8220;unbreakable record&#8221; in sports, records thought to be out of reach and never matched, and thus standing forever. Let the\u00a0<em>record<\/em> show many of these so-called unbreakable records have been, well, broken.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one that probably won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>In his major league career pitching legend Denton True &#8220;Cy&#8221; Young fashioned 749 complete games. (The exact number has changed a bit over the years but 749 seems to be the current consensus.)<\/p>\n<p>For a little perspective, consider this.<\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer, the greatest pitcher of his generation, arguably the greatest of this century, and perhaps the greatest I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>has 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much debate is had over the &#8220;unbreakable record&#8221; in sports, records thought to be out of reach and never matched, and thus standing forever. Let the\u00a0record show many of these so-called unbreakable records have been, well, broken. Here&#8217;s one that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2915\">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-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}