{"id":1554,"date":"2018-06-11T22:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T22:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/2018\/06\/11\/chapmans-blast-in-8th-lifts-as-in-series-finale\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T22:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T22:07:45","slug":"chapmans-blast-in-8th-lifts-as-in-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/chapmans-blast-in-8th-lifts-as-in-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapman&#8217;s blast in 8th lifts A&#8217;s in series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Chapman propelled the A&#8217;s to a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon with a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning, helping them take three of four from the Royals at the Coliseum. The solo homer off right-hander Jason Adam was Chapman&#8217;s 10th of the season and followed a spectacular game-changing defensive play by Marcus Semien in the top half of the inning. The A&#8217;s shortstop made a diving stop and nailed the potential go-ahead run at the plate to preserve a 2-2 tie.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/oak\/athletics-top-royals-to-take-3-of-4-in-series?ymd=20180610&#038;content_id=280652038&#038;vkey=news_oak\">OAK Homepage News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Chapman propelled the A&#8217;s to a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon with a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning, helping them take three of four from the Royals at the Coliseum. The solo homer off right-hander Jason Adam was Chapman&#8217;s 10th of the season and followed a spectacular game-changing defensive play by Marcus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1711,2147,415,496,76],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oakland-athletics","tag-blast","tag-chapmans","tag-finale","tag-lifts","tag-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}