{"id":2124,"date":"2005-04-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:51:07","slug":"2124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/03\/2124\/","title":{"rendered":"A Record To Stand The Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/sports\/stories.nsf\/cardinals\/story\/F8EF7A0BC63A610986256FD70017AF97?OpenDocument&#038;highlight=2%2C%22pujols%22\" target=\"_new\">nugget in the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i><\/a>, Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols did not strike out in spring training.  An almost unheard of occurrence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is the first player to go an entire spring without a strikeout since the Milwaukee Brewers&#8217; Eric Young in 2003. The Chicago White Sox&#8217; Joey Cora accomplished the feat in 1993 in 72 plate appearances. Outfielder Luis Saturia was the last Cardinals player to go all spring training without a strikeout in at least 20 plate appearances. He did so in 2002; however, he was reassigned before the end of camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No other player in Major League Baseball has done that <i>since the year before last<\/i> and no Cardinals spring trainee attendee has done that <i>since two years ago<\/i>.  And that Cardinals player <i>was demoted to the minor leagues<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>If local sportswriters could have it, we know which Cardinal they would elevate to the papacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a nugget in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols did not strike out in spring training. An almost unheard of occurrence: He is the first player to go an entire spring without a strikeout since the Milwaukee Brewers&#8217; Eric Young in 2003. The Chicago White Sox&#8217; Joey Cora accomplished the feat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/20340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}