{"id":453,"date":"2014-05-31T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-05-31T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:47:38","slug":"baseball-birthdays-may-thirty-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Birthdays: May thirty-first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Washburn pitched nine years for Cards, helped them to series twice.<br \/>\nHis hot year was in sixty-eight, no-hitter adding spice.<\/p>\n<p>Tippy Martinez saved games in years when O&#8217;s were winning.<br \/>\nBack in eighty-three picked off three Blue Jays in one inning.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Lofton played one season each, ten different teams.<br \/>\nHis seven years in Cleveland were his stable times, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Peavey won a Cy with Padres. Strikeouts were his thing.<br \/>\nNow he&#8217;s on the hill for Boston, where he won his ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Washburn pitched nine years for Cards, helped them to series twice. His hot year was in sixty-eight, no-hitter adding spice. Tippy Martinez saved games in years when O&#8217;s were winning. Back in eighty-three picked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=453\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":398,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=398","url_meta":{"origin":453,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April twenty-seventh","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Rogers Hornsby twice won triple crowns and MVP's. \"The Rajah's\" personality, however, failed to please. Enos Slaughter's 'mad dash' home won Cards a series ring. 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