{"id":766,"date":"2007-08-28T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=766"},"modified":"2013-11-30T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:27:54","slug":"they-deserved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"They Deserved It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone\u2019s harping on the bullpen and Willie\u2019s alleged poor management of it, the fact that the Mets have scored only 2 runs in the last three games is the real guilty party. That, and the<strong>Luis Castillo-Paul LoDuca<\/strong>\u00a0screwup. And Aaron Rowand\u2019s good fortune. The bullpen is what it is: Enigmatic, unpredictable, prone to slumps. Teams that don\u2019t score more than 2 runs on the road in 10 innings deserve whatever they get.<\/p>\n<p>The new right fielder,<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/chavez-endy\">\u00a0<strong>Endy Chavez,<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0did little to change that last night. Endy returned to the Mets and the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/10\">No. 10<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>jersey last night for the first time since June, and made a fine catch, but otherwise resembled all the other right fielders recently.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/lawrence-brian\"><strong>Brian Lawrence 54<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was designated to make room, leaving Saturday\u2019s starter role currently unfulfilled. The possibilities are many as the calendar will read Sept. 1 by then, though\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/humber-phillip\"><strong>Phillip Humber<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0looks at the moment to have a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Humber you may recall appeared twice in relief last September, wearing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/49\"><strong>No. 49.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0He\u2019s had a quietly strong season in AAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While everyone\u2019s harping on the bullpen and Willie\u2019s alleged poor management of it, the fact that the Mets have scored only 2 runs in the last three games is the real guilty party. That, and theLuis Castillo-Paul LoDuca\u00a0screwup. And Aaron Rowand\u2019s good fortune. The bullpen is what it is: Enigmatic, unpredictable, prone to slumps. Teams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Deserved It&#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":[321,215,178],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brian-lawrence","tag-endy-chavez","tag-phillip-humber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}