{"id":16942,"date":"2014-03-31T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/first-mlb-replay-challenge-upholds-call-on-field\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T14:50:00","slug":"first-mlb-replay-challenge-upholds-call-on-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/first-mlb-replay-challenge-upholds-call-on-field\/","title":{"rendered":"First MLB replay challenge upholds call on field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The first replay under the new challenge system took place Monday in Pittsburgh, and it took only a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Cubs manager Rick Renteria challenged a call on a double play in the fifth inning when he thought pitcher Jeff Samardzija was safe on a close play at first base.<\/p>\n<p>First base umpire Bob Davidson made the out call when Samardzija bunted into a 1-5-4 double play. Renteria calmly and slowly walked toward first base to question the call and decided he wanted to challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The review, in a call from the field umpires with replay headquarters in New York, quickly upheld Davidson&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The first replay under the new challenge system took place Monday in Pittsburgh, and it took only a few minutes. Chicago Cubs manager Rick Renteria challenged a call on a double play in the fifth inning when he thought pitcher Jeff Samardzija was safe on a close play at first base. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,207,208,180,143,179],"class_list":["post-16942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}