{"id":40444,"date":"2013-10-08T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/post-gazette_pirates_mvp_moment_was_not_to_be_cardinals_win_2-1\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:15:47","slug":"post-gazette_pirates_mvp_moment_was_not_to_be_cardinals_win_2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40444","title":{"rendered":"(Post-Gazette) Pirates&#39; MVP moment was not to be; Cardinals win, 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One swing from No. 22&#8217;s bat could tie or win the game, a tantalizing proposition that grew more likely with each pitch from Mr. Rosenthal. The count moved to 3-0, and Mr. [Andrew] McCutchen showed great restraint by taking a strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I knew he still had to come to me,&#8221; Mr. McCutchen said.<\/p>\n<p>At 3-1, he liked his chances of being able to rifle a ball to right-center field. The pitch came to the outside, and he swung, uncorking those wrists through the hitting zone. But the wood simply did not touch enough of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/neighborhoods-city\/bucs-mvp-moment-was-not-to-be-706636\/#ixzz2h7dXgwp8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/neighborhoods-city\/bucs-mvp-moment-was-not-to-be-706636\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One swing from No. 22&#8217;s bat could tie or win the game, a tantalizing proposition that grew more likely with each pitch from Mr. Rosenthal. The count moved to 3-0, and Mr. [Andrew] McCutchen showed great restraint by taking a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,125,128,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-men","category-sports","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}