{"id":24102,"date":"2014-09-30T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-p-mchugh-named-al-rookie-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:29:00","slug":"astros-p-mchugh-named-al-rookie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/astros-p-mchugh-named-al-rookie-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros P McHugh named AL Rookie of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Houston Astros starter Collin McHugh was tabbed the American League Rookie of the Month for September.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh capped his first full season in the majors by going 4-0 with a 1.59 earned run average over 28 1\/3 innings pitched in four starts. He limited batters to a .150 average and ranked sixth in strikeouts-per-nine-innings (7.94).<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Chicagoland native and right-hander ended up 11-9 with a 2.73 ERA over 25 starts for the Astros, who snapped a franchise-worst streak of three consecutive 100-loss seasons in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>McHugh joins Roy Oswalt (August 2001), Kirk Saarloos (July 2002) and Hunter Pence (May 2007) as the only Astros players to snag a monthly honor as a first-year player.<\/p>\n<p>Others considered for the season&#8217;s final month were Red Sox infielder Xander Bogaerts, Twins outfielder Danny Santana and Kansas City starter Yordano Ventura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Houston Astros starter Collin McHugh was tabbed the American League Rookie of the Month for September. McHugh capped his first full season in the majors by going 4-0 with a 1.59 earned run average over 28 1\/3 innings pitched in four starts. He limited batters to a .150 average and [&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":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-24102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102","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=24102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}