{"id":18041,"date":"2014-05-11T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T08:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18041"},"modified":"2014-05-11T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T09:02:18","slug":"weekly-hit-ground-ball-unlucky-yu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18041","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Hit Ground Ball: Unlucky Yu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short reflection on the most memorable moment of the past week in MLB.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxf9gf9kHXA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;(Un)Lucky Y(o)u&#8217;<\/a> by the Lightning Seeds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You&#8217;ve done it again<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The night would soon belong to you<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A no-hitter loomed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> It seemed this time nothing could stop it coming true<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But Yu, it didn&#8217;t happen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ooh-ooh-eee-ooh<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Ooh-ooh-eee-ooh-eee-ooh-eee-ooh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No-hitter blues now, unlucky Yu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unlucky Yu<\/em><br \/>\n<em> What more could you do<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Except get one more out<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Unlucky Yu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Coming within a single out of pitching a no-hitter is heartbreaking enough. Doing it twice seems a cruel twist of fate handed down by the baseball gods.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Rangers&#8217; Yu Darvish could manage a wry smile at David Ortiz&#8217;s ground-ball eluding Elvis Andrus with two outs in the eighth inning (it was fitting that the Rangers were playing a defensive shift at the key moment &#8211; nothing defines the 2014 season so far quite like teams moving their infielders about).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=32753105&amp;topic_id=8878736&amp;width=400&amp;height=224&amp;property=mlb\" height=\"224\" width=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tempting to say that it&#8217;s inevitable Darvish will get a no-no at some point considering how close he&#8217;s come to it on several occasions. He has more than lived up to his ace-type billing since making the move from Japan and he has the ability to dominate teams whenever he&#8217;s on top of his game.<\/p>\n<p>Yet perhaps luck will determine that he remains the nearly no-hitter man for the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is ever certain in baseball, which is exactly why we are so captivated by the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All he needed was one more out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[503,553,126],"class_list":["post-18041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-hit-ground-ball","category-mlb-2","tag-featured","tag-mlb-2","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041","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=18041"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18048,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}