{"id":136,"date":"2007-04-05T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T06:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:00:20","slug":"dice-k-debuts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Dice-K debuts today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It cannot have escaped your attention that Daisuke Matsuzaka makes his Major League debut today for the Red Sox.\u00c2\u00a0 Boston set it up for him yesterday, beating the Royals to tie the series 1-1 and allowing Matsuzaka to try to win the rubber match.\u00c2\u00a0 First pitch is scheduled for 19.10 (BST) and it promises to be a great way to start the Easter weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully MLB.TV will be up to it, because I&#8217;m sure there will be plenty of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking for a Dice-K primer should head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/events\/matsuzaka\/index.jsp\">Special K<\/a> page on Boston&#8217;s official site.\u00c2\u00a0 In particular have a read of the &#8220;Variety of pitches up his sleeve&#8221; article and watch the main multimedia clip by Will Carrol from Baseball Prospectus, dissecting Dice-K&#8217;s pitching mechanics.\u00c2\u00a0 Seeing how similar his delivery is to Roger Clemens&#8217;s is an eye-opener, not least because physically they are quite different in terms of body shape.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether he can produce the same results is what we are all waiting to see.\u00c2\u00a0 It should be fascinating to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It cannot have escaped your attention that Daisuke Matsuzaka makes his Major League debut today for the Red Sox.\u00c2\u00a0 Boston set it up for him yesterday, beating the Royals to tie the series 1-1 and allowing Matsuzaka to try to win the rubber match.\u00c2\u00a0 First pitch is scheduled for 19.10 (BST) and it promises to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}