{"id":3013,"date":"2021-10-13T15:59:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T15:06:29","slug":"2021-al-championship-set-red-sox-v-astros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/2021-al-championship-set-red-sox-v-astros\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AL Championship Set Red Sox v Astros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 American League Championship will have a familiar look to it again this year as the Houston Astros are in the final for the 5th season running! They beat the Chicago White Sox 10-1 in game four after being a run down early. This was a fitting end to high scoring series which saw them win by a combined score of 31 &#8211; 18. Who said MLB divisional series had to be cagey pitchers duels!<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox are waiting for them following their 6-5 win in game four, a game that was a bit tenser, ending with the Red Sox gaining a walk-off win. This was a confidence-boosting series for the Red Sox especially given it didn&#8217;t start too<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/al-divisional-round-opening-games-astros-rays-wn-big\/\"> well<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this has set up a replay of the 2018 series which Boston won 4-1. Hopefully, it will be a bit closer this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2021-mlb-playoff-and-world-series-schedule\">Post Season Schedule<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 American League Championship will have a familiar look to it again this year as the Houston Astros are in the final for the 5th season running! They beat the Chicago White Sox 10-1 in game four after being a run down early. This was a fitting end to high scoring series which saw&#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":[2,4,2541],"tags":[2743],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-league-east","category-american-league-west","category-world-series","tag-2021-world-series"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","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=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}