{"id":2617,"date":"2019-04-10T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:55:32","slug":"ramon-laureano-does-it-again-as-the-athletics-halt-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/ramon-laureano-does-it-again-as-the-athletics-halt-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Laureano Does It Again As the Athletics Halt Losing Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics ended their 4 game skid with an emphatic 13-2 win against Baltimore last night, however, the game will best be remembered for Ramon Laureano&#8217;s pin perfect throw to the plate, which is already being likened to last years bullet which many regarded as the throw of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The win moved Oakland on to 7-8 which may be below the heady expectations of some following last years break out, but still a better than their start to 2018 (they were on 4 wins at this stage back then).<\/p>\n<p>As for Baltimore &#8211; well they have started better than all but their most optimistic fan would have thought at 5-6, however, they have given up 72 runs in 11 games and sit with a -22 differential. They will need to improve their pitching if they are to avoid falling off as the season progresses.<\/p>\n<h3>For anyone who missed it, here&#8217;s the video of Laureano&#8217;s throw:<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;ll keep saying it if we have to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T RUN ON LAUREANO. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c6DIu7uplU\">pic.twitter.com\/c6DIu7uplU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1115767676884922368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">10 April 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>And last year&#8217;s bullet too for good measure<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Throw of the year?! \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fgFmTMXOKO\">pic.twitter.com\/fgFmTMXOKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1028471655985766400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">12 August 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Athletics ended their 4 game skid with an emphatic 13-2 win against Baltimore last night, however, the game will best be remembered for Ramon Laureano&#8217;s pin perfect throw to the plate, which is already being likened to last years bullet which many regarded as the throw of the year. The win moved Oakland&#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":[2,4,7,20],"tags":[2542,2712],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-league-east","category-american-league-west","category-baltimore-orioles","category-oakland-athletics","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-ramon-laureano"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}