{"id":3156,"date":"2012-08-21T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3156"},"modified":"2012-08-21T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T16:49:01","slug":"mlb-suicide-game-what-a-day-to-pick-the-padres-of-the-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3156","title":{"rendered":"MLB Suicide Game: What a Day to Pick the Padres&#8230;of the &#8220;Bye&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!\u00a0 The carnage left yesterday will probably go to define Round Eleven, as the field goes 3-20 on the day, losing\u00a05 more people to elimination and taking the perfect rounds of all four that entered the day without a strike.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>R.A. Dickey pitches well, but the Mets offense is nowhere to be found and the bullpen blows it late<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Total carnage from this Mets loss, though, surprisingly, of the 11 losses, no one was eliminated.<br \/>\n<strong>RyanDoc<\/strong> and <strong>RyanSmith<\/strong> both lost their perfect rounds.<br \/>\n9 others got his with their second strikes.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Twins pound Brandon McCarthy and the A&#8217;s<\/span><\/em><br \/>\nMore rubble from this one, as 8 more people take strikes, including the last 2 that were perfect, and 4 eliminations.<br \/>\n<strong>Bry<\/strong> and <strong>Mittenthal<\/strong> fell from the ranks of the unbeaten.<br \/>\n<strong>GrossJr, Jayson, Josh, <\/strong>and <strong>Pat<\/strong> all were hit with their final strikes.<br \/>\n<strong>Dannell<\/strong> and <strong>Rick<\/strong> were both hit with strike #2.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Braves lose in 13 innings to division-rival Washington<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>MattK<\/strong> loses his 3rd straight, eliminating him from Round Eleven, after 3 straight wins to start the round.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jeremy Hellickson and the Rays make easy work of KC on the night<\/span><\/em><br \/>\nThe first game of the night to finish up saw 2 quick suicide Ws &#8211; <strong>Gillig<\/strong> and <strong>Stumpf<\/strong> &#8211; keeping each at 1 strike and a share of the lead.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Padres, behind Edinson Volquez, knock off the Buckos, 3-1 in the late game<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Chad<\/strong> stays alive with the SD pick and gains ground on just about the entire field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boot<\/strong> picked a great time to use his &#8220;bye,&#8221; as he gets a free pass to stay alive and pick up a strike on the TWENTY people that were hit yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OVERALL<\/span> &#8211; 19 of 29 remain<br \/>\nSTILL PERFECT (0)<br \/>\nONE STRIKE (6) &#8211; Bry, Gillig, Mittenthal, RyanDoc, RyanSmith, Stumpf<br \/>\nTWO STRIKES (13) &#8211; Boot, Chad, Dannell, Doogan, Greeley, Kevin, McGrath, Rick, Rohde, Scott, Tyler, Vito, Wojo<br \/>\nELIMINATED (10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!\u00a0 The carnage left yesterday will probably go to define Round Eleven, as the field goes 3-20 on the day, losing\u00a05 more people to elimination and taking the perfect rounds of all four that entered the day without a strike. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-suicide-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}