{"id":547,"date":"2008-08-13T01:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-09-26T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:00:50","slug":"zink-galvanizes-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Zink galvanizes Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one&#8230; With Tim Wakefield, the scheduled starter for the Red Sox, going on the 15-day disabled list,\u00c2\u00a0fellow knuckleball pitcher\u00c2\u00a0Charlie Zink is making his first\u00c2\u00a0Major League appearance after being promoted\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0Triple-A Pawtucket. The Red Sox, who are taking on the Rangers,\u00c2\u00a0were kind enough to put on 10 runs for Zink in the 1st inning (including six off the bat of David Ortiz\u00c2\u00a0from two 3-run homers).\u00c2\u00a0I just wish that\u00c2\u00a0all knuckleballers were welcomed to the big leagues in this way.<\/p>\n<p>As I write this, I am following David Ortiz&#8217;s third at-bat (on Gameday). As in his first two, JD Drew and Dustin Pedroia are on base. He couldn&#8217;t possibly make it three 3-run homers could he? Alas no. He&#8217;s just grounded out to second.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if the Rangers come back to win this one while I&#8217;m sleeping, I guess I&#8217;ll need to change the title of this post.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<h5>Update: Line score<\/h5>\n<pre>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 1\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 2\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 3\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 4\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 5\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 6\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 7\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 8\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 9\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 R\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 H\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 E<\/pre>\n<pre>TEX   0   2   0   0   8   5   1   0   1   17  20   2<\/pre>\n<pre>BOS  10   0   2   0   2   0   1   4   X   19  17   2<\/pre>\n<pre>\u00c2\u00a0<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick one&#8230; With Tim Wakefield, the scheduled starter for the Red Sox, going on the 15-day disabled list,\u00c2\u00a0fellow knuckleball pitcher\u00c2\u00a0Charlie Zink is making his first\u00c2\u00a0Major League appearance after being promoted\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0Triple-A Pawtucket. The Red Sox, who are taking on the Rangers,\u00c2\u00a0were kind enough to put on 10 runs for Zink in the 1st inning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-547","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\/547","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/4653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}