{"id":2297,"date":"2018-10-13T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2018-10-13T19:54:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T19:54:41","slug":"astros-red-sox-alcs-game-one-verlander-v-sale-round-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/astros-red-sox-alcs-game-one-verlander-v-sale-round-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros @ Red Sox ALCS Game One &#8211; Verlander  v Sale Round Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Opening game of the 2018 ALCS tonight sees a pitching rematch of last seasons ALDS game 1. In that one; Justin Verlander took the win in a game which saw Chris Sale give up 7 runs. This time both have been on form in the Divisional games, with Verlander striking out 7 in his start as Houston swept Cleveland, while Chris Sale took the win in Game one v the Yankees and even pitched a scoreless inning as a reliever in game 4.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This should be a pitchers&nbsp;duel, however facing such strong rotations even the best will give up runs. We expect&nbsp;the Astros to prevail, but they might drop this one on their way to the World Series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opening game of the 2018 ALCS tonight sees a pitching rematch of last seasons ALDS game 1. In that one; Justin Verlander took the win in a game which saw Chris Sale give up 7 runs. This time both have been on form in the Divisional games, with Verlander striking out 7 in his&#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":[2,4,5,24,2541],"tags":[2556,2557,2558],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-league-east","category-american-league-west","category-boston-red-sox","category-houston-astros","category-world-series","tag-alcs","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-houston-astros"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","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=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}