{"id":1422,"date":"2008-09-09T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2008-09-09T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:58:41","slug":"crazy-i-mean-like-so-many-positive-waves-maybe-we-cant-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2008\/09\/09\/crazy-i-mean-like-so-many-positive-waves-maybe-we-cant-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can’t lose!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Lee, on the disabled list with a fractured left finger, isn’t expected back before the regular season ends. “I’ll put it this way,”\u00a0 Cooper said, “we’re going to be playing in October, and I plan on having him.”
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And they might, because of these guys,<\/em><\/p>\n

Hunter Pence’s hitting streak is at 10, Miguel Tejada has hit safely in 9. … Jose Valverde’s has converted 14 consecutive save opportunities,\u00a0 … Houston’s team ERA in eight games since Aug. 31 is 2.34.<\/p>\n

and guys like these<\/em><\/p>\n

Saccomanno<\/em> “I was with [coach] Dave Clark and he was throwing me some balls in the cage in the second inning because I hadn’t really gotten here in time to warm up or anything. I said, ‘I’m thinking about taking a pitch. He said, ‘You’re not doing that. You’re a pinch-hitter, you get a first-pitch fastball, you’re swinging. If you don’t swing it’s going to cost you,’ and he fines me all the time.”<\/p>\n

…getting five scoreless innings from waiver-wire claim Alberto Arias, a pitcher who hadn’t gone as many as four innings in a Major League game in his life. Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carlos Lee, on the disabled list with a fractured left finger, isn’t expected back before the regular season ends. “I’ll put it this way,”\u00a0 Cooper said, “we’re going to be playing in October, and I plan on having him.” Link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}