{"id":743,"date":"2007-08-01T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=743"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:45:19","slug":"jumping-the-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Jumping the Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lawrence-brian\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/54.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-140\" alt=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/54.gif\" width=\"58\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a>Brian Lawrence,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0who is scheduled to start this afternoon in Milwaukee, is expected to appear in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/54\"><strong>No. 54.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0That would make Lawrence only the second Met player ever to appear in No. 54, which has traditionally been reserved for coaches and staff (including the recently whacked\u00a0<strong>Rick Down,<\/strong>\u00a01967 interim manager\u00a0<strong>Salty Parker,<\/strong>\u00a0and, for 14 years (1968-81), pitching coach\u00a0<strong>Rube Walker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only previous playing tenant was\u00a0<strong>non<\/strong>-alliterative starting pitcher\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/clark-mark\"><strong>Mark Clark,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>the best pitcher on a 1996 Mets team that\u2019s remembered for its offense. Clark arrived in a trade from Cleveland for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/thompson-ryan\"><strong>Ryan Thompson,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0won 14 games for the 96ers, and was traded to the Cubs as Steve Phillips took over as GM in the Turk Wendell\/Mal Rojas\/Brian McRae thing in 1997. Clark later got stupid money to pitch badly for the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is a former 15-game winner or the Padres, but hasn\u2019t pitched in the big leagues since 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Lawrence,\u00a0who is scheduled to start this afternoon in Milwaukee, is expected to appear in\u00a0No. 54.\u00a0That would make Lawrence only the second Met player ever to appear in No. 54, which has traditionally been reserved for coaches and staff (including the recently whacked\u00a0Rick Down,\u00a01967 interim manager\u00a0Salty Parker,\u00a0and, for 14 years (1968-81), pitching coach\u00a0Rube Walker. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=743\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jumping the Clark&#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":[321,322,324,323],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-lawrence","tag-mark-clark","tag-rube-walker","tag-salty-parker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}