{"id":24299,"date":"2014-10-07T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/puig-benched-for-game-4\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T02:00:08","slug":"puig-benched-for-game-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/puig-benched-for-game-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Puig benched for Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly made a lineup change for Game 4 of the National League Division Series against St. Louis, benching the struggling Yasiel Puig.<\/p>\n<p>The move didn&#8217;t help, though, as the Dodgers lost the game, 3-2, and the series.<\/p>\n<p>Puig appeared in the game as a pinch-runner in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Ethier started in center field and batted sixth in place of Puig, who had struck out seven straight times before a smashing a leadoff triple in the sixth inning on Monday in Game 3. The second-year star then fanned again in the eighth inning of the 3-1 loss and went just 3-for-12 with eight strikeouts in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Ethier went 0-for-2 with a pair of walks in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly made a lineup change for Game 4 of the National League Division Series against St. Louis, benching the struggling Yasiel Puig. The move didn&#8217;t help, though, as the Dodgers lost the game, 3-2, and the series. Puig appeared in the game as a pinch-runner [&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":[134,21,133],"class_list":["post-24299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-dodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24299","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=24299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24310,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24299\/revisions\/24310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}