{"id":1133,"date":"2005-10-23T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2005-10-23T23:00:24","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T04:00:24","slug":"astros-head-home-down-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Astros Head Home down 0-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Series is finally heading to the Lone Star State, but game three in Houston will find my Astros facing an 0-2 series deficit after tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.sportsline.com\/mlb\/gamecenter\/recap\/MLB_20051023_HOU@CHW\">7-6<\/a> loss to the ChiSox.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly of concern is the mental outlook of closer Brad Lidge, who seems snake-bit after giving up tonight&#8217;s ninth-inning game-winning dinger.  This on the heels of a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/playoffs2005\/news\/story?id=2194640\">ninth-inning homer<\/a> in the NLCS, Lidge&#8217;s last time on the mound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Series is finally heading to the Lone Star State, but game three in Houston will find my Astros facing an 0-2 series deficit after tonight&#8217;s 7-6 loss to the ChiSox. Particularly of concern is the mental outlook of closer Brad Lidge, who seems snake-bit after giving up tonight&#8217;s ninth-inning game-winning dinger. This on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}