{"id":620,"date":"2006-08-15T15:38:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T15:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=620"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:39:51","slug":"pedro-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Out Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pedro Martinez<\/strong>\u00a0hit the disabled list for the second time this year, and for the fourth time, the Mets have recalled\u00a0<strong>Heath Bell<\/strong>\u00a0from Norfolk, helping the Mets turn this into their worst road trip since the Boston debacle in late June. With\u00a0<strong>Carlos Delgado 21\u00a0<\/strong>radically slumping,\u00a0<strong>David Wright 5<\/strong>transforming into a singles hitter, and\u00a0<strong>Lastings Milledge 44\u00a0<\/strong>looking every bit the rookie he is, this could get worse before it gets better. And that&#8217;s why\u00a0<strong>God<\/strong>\u00a0created 12-game leads.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Met number genius\u00a0<strong>Ed<\/strong>\u00a0for pointing out the comment below on\u00a0<strong>Jae Seo&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;outrageous&#8221;<strong>No. 98<\/strong>\u00a0in Tampa had a precedent: Seo, Ed writes, wore 98 as a Met spring training hopeful in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Props also to the reader who pointed out our math below on\u00a0<strong>Ed Kranepool&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0tenure in\u00a0<strong>No. 7<\/strong>\u00a0was inaccurate: Krane was\u00a0<strong>21<\/strong>\u00a0for his first two seasons with the Mets, and so occupied 7 for 15 years, not 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro Martinez\u00a0hit the disabled list for the second time this year, and for the fourth time, the Mets have recalled\u00a0Heath Bell\u00a0from Norfolk, helping the Mets turn this into their worst road trip since the Boston debacle in late June. With\u00a0Carlos Delgado 21\u00a0radically slumping,\u00a0David Wright 5transforming into a singles hitter, and\u00a0Lastings Milledge 44\u00a0looking every bit the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pedro Out Again&#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":[210,257,12,160,211,169],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carlos-delgado","tag-david-wright","tag-ed-kranepool","tag-heath-bell","tag-lastings-milledge","tag-pedro-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}