{"id":5865,"date":"2009-09-09T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:56:44","slug":"getting-closer-to-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/2009\/09\/09\/getting-closer-to-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting closer to the end."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Braves 2, Astros 1<\/strong><br \/>\nW:  Javier Vazquez, L:  Felipe Paulino, S:  Rafael Soriano<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/houston.astros.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20090908&amp;content_id=6858898&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=hou\">Astros Recap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/recap?gid=290908118\">Yahoo Recap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This game didn&#8217;t take any time at all to be played.  2 hours and 33 minutes.  That usually means a good pitched game, at least to me it does.  And I think it was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Astros Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Felipe Paulino, went 6 innings of 2 run baseball.  Both runs were solo homeruns, but he pitched great otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Pence went 2 for 4, with an RBI.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Braves Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Javier Vazquez tossed 7 innings of 3 hit no run baseball.  He walked 4 but struck out 9.  Not a bad night for him either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Game Analysis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have none.  So, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=109483.msg296885#new\">Game Zone<\/a> for that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bench Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I feel as though I should explain why I have no game analysis for anyone.  It is because I was busy baking.  I baked a chocolate italian creme cake and a lemon cake with lemon filling.  I have to make the icing and the ice the cakes tonight.  Going to be a late night since I am also going to the Astros game.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikesnstars.com\/2009\/09\/08\/welcome-to-the-big-show-braves-astros-preview\/\">GreatBagwellsBeard&#8217;s Series Preview<\/a> for information about the rest of the series.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m meeting a friend at the BUS at 6:30 if anyone wants to meet for a beverage before the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braves 2, Astros 1 W: Javier Vazquez, L: Felipe Paulino, S: Rafael Soriano Astros Recap Yahoo Recap This game didn&#8217;t take any time at all to be played. 2 hours and 33 minutes. That usually means a good pitched game, at least to me it does. And I think it was. Astros Highlights: Felipe Paulino, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orangewhoopass.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}