{"id":1088,"date":"2009-07-22T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2009-07-22T19:04:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T00:04:51","slug":"number-five-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/1088\/number-five-alive","title":{"rendered":"Number Five: Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.whitesox.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20090721&#038;content_id=5969344&#038;vkey=news_cws&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=cws\">eight consecutive starts<\/a> where Clayton Richard was not very good? That&#8217;s all over now, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, but let&#8217;s consider the context of last night&#8217;s gem:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Richard threw a great game, no question about it.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to that, Richard&#8217;s last quality start came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/KCA\/KCA200905290.shtml\">May 29th<\/a>. Not in June. Not in July. May.<\/li>\n<li>Even including last night&#8217;s dazzler, Richard has a career WHIP over 1.5, career ERA over 5 and a K:BB under 2.<\/li>\n<li>Right-handers have a .315\/.379\/.490 line against young Clayton.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So he threw a great game, and that&#8217;s awesome. But before anyone goes declaring the back-end problems solved, let&#8217;s remember just that: he threw a great game. A. One.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, as the Sox trot out the rookie while waiting and seeing what happens with El Barto and Sweaty Freddy, there&#8217;s a stat we can all watch out for: if rookie right-hander Carlos Torres notches a quality start, he will have as many since May 29 as the Sox&#8217; current number five. Problem solved, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those eight consecutive starts where Clayton Richard was not very good? That&#8217;s all over now, right? Right? Maybe, but let&#8217;s consider the context of last night&#8217;s gem: Richard threw a great game, no question &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[487,35,387,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sox35th.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}