{"id":1022,"date":"2008-08-08T04:32:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2013-12-06T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T00:36:28","slug":"saturday-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Saturday in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/43.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-129\" alt=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/43.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>After lots of speculation looks like it will be\u00a0<strong>Brian Stokes<\/strong>\u00a0making the start and his Mets debut Saturday evening when the Mets host the Marlins. Stokes, who struggled as a reliever in the Rays&#8217; system, has spent the entire season at AAA New Orleans, where he&#8217;s gone 10-8 with a 4.41 ERA in 23 games and 22 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Stokes wore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/43\"><strong>No. 43<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0back when he nearly made the Mets as a short reliever this spring and despite being poised to be the 46th player and 21st pitcher the Mets have employed this year 43 still hasn&#8217;t been issued.<\/p>\n<p>Unclear at this point who gets sent down to make room for Stokes. While\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lugo-ruddy\">Ruddy Lugo<\/a>\u00a0makes sense,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/castro-ramon\">Ramon Castro<\/a>&#8216;s injury could change things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After lots of speculation looks like it will be\u00a0Brian Stokes\u00a0making the start and his Mets debut Saturday evening when the Mets host the Marlins. Stokes, who struggled as a reliever in the Rays&#8217; system, has spent the entire season at AAA New Orleans, where he&#8217;s gone 10-8 with a 4.41 ERA in 23 games and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday in the Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[339],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-stokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}