{"id":628,"date":"2006-08-03T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T15:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=628"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:48:04","slug":"a-man-of-his-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"A Man of His Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roberto Hernandez<\/strong>\u00a0promised writers he&#8217;d be wearing his old\u00a0<strong>No. 39<\/strong>\u00a0for tonight&#8217;s game &#8212; and sure enough, he did. The veteran relief pitcher had been assigned\u00a0<strong>49<\/strong>\u00a0when he joined the Mets Tuesday but evidently was successful in prying the digits from\u00a0<strong>Pedro Feliciano,\u00a0<\/strong>who switched to the vacant<strong>25<\/strong>\u00a0and summarily ended Chase Utley&#8217;s hitting streak. The news here is Feliciano becoming the latest member of the exclusive\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/mcknight.htm#multi\">Three-Number Club<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; he previously suited up in\u00a0<strong>55 and 39.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also this evening, word arrived that backup catcher\u00a0<strong>Mike DiFelice<\/strong>\u00a0has returned while\u00a0<strong>Ramon Castro 11<\/strong>\u00a0hit the disabled list. No word yet on DiFelice&#8217;s jersey, but it won&#8217;t be the\u00a0<strong>33<\/strong>\u00a0he wore last year: That belongs to\u00a0<strong>John Maine.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto Hernandez\u00a0promised writers he&#8217;d be wearing his old\u00a0No. 39\u00a0for tonight&#8217;s game &#8212; and sure enough, he did. The veteran relief pitcher had been assigned\u00a049\u00a0when he joined the Mets Tuesday but evidently was successful in prying the digits from\u00a0Pedro Feliciano,\u00a0who switched to the vacant25\u00a0and summarily ended Chase Utley&#8217;s hitting streak. The news here is Feliciano becoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Man of His Word&#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":[221,187,87,174,238],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-maine","tag-mike-difelice","tag-pedro-feliciano","tag-ramon-castro","tag-roberto-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","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=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}