{"id":2046,"date":"2018-10-01T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T10:03:24","slug":"2018-world-series-predicting-the-outcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/2018-world-series-predicting-the-outcome\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 World Series Predicting the Outcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 MLB season lasted a little longer than usual due to the need for an unprecedented play off to settle the winner of both the NL Central and NL West. The last time a playoff was needed was back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway with that out of the way we can get down to the serious business of trying to predict the outcome of the post season.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AL Wild Card Game Oakland Athletics @ New York Yankees<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yankees<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>American League Divisional Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Boston Red Sox v NY Yankees &#8211; Red Sox 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Houston Astros v Cleveland Indians \u2013 Astros 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>American League Championship Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Boston Red Sox v Houston Astros \u2013 Astros 4-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NL Wild Card Game Colorado Rockies @ Chicago Cubs&nbsp;<\/strong> &nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rockies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">National League Divisional Series<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Milwaukee Brewers v Colorado Rockies \u2013 Brewers 3-2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Atlanta Braves v LA Dodgers \u2013 Dodgers 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>National League Championship Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Milwaukee Brewers v LA Dodgers \u2013 Brewers 4-3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2018 World Series&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Houston Astros v Milwaukee Brewers&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Winner<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Houston 4-2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 MLB season lasted a little longer than usual due to the need for an unprecedented play off to settle the winner of both the NL Central and NL West. The last time a playoff was needed was back in 2013. Anyway with that out of the way we can get down to the&#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":[3,2,4,25,5,34,16,39,24,35,33,12,13,14,8,20,2541],"tags":[2546,2544],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-league-central","category-american-league-east","category-american-league-west","category-atlanta-braves","category-boston-red-sox","category-chicago-cubs","category-cleveland-indians","category-colorado-rockies","category-houston-astros","category-los-angeles-dodgers","category-milwaukee-brewers","category-national-league-central","category-national-league-east","category-national-league-west","category-new-york-yankees","category-oakland-athletics","category-world-series","tag-2018-world-series","tag-ny-yankees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}