{"id":2434,"date":"2013-07-15T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/davidsons-homer-lifts-u-s-to-futures-win\/"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T08:23:00","slug":"davidsons-homer-lifts-u-s-to-futures-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/davidsons-homer-lifts-u-s-to-futures-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Davidson&#8217;s homer lifts U.S. to Futures win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Matt Davidson belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning to lift the United States to a 4-2 win over the World team in the 2013 Futures Game.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, an Arizona Diamondbacks prospect playing at Triple-A Reno, was named the game&#8217;s MVP after his homer erased a 2-1 deficit and helped the United States win the annual contest between minor league stars for a fourth straight time.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s game was dominated by offense in a 17-5 American rout. Pitching, though, was at the forefront this year.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. pitchers held the World team to a mere three hits, two coming from Boston prospect Xander Bogaerts, who also scored a run. Arismendy Alcantara, a shortstop playing for the Cubs&#8217; Double-A affiliate in Tennessee, homered for the other World team run.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia prospect Jesse Biddle was credited with the win for the U.S., surrendering one walk with a strikeout in 1 1\/3 innings. A.J. Cole, a Nationals prospect, picked up the save.<\/p>\n<p>The World team did not record a hit over the final 5 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Garin Cecchini, a Boston prospect at Double-A Portland, drove in the final U.S. run with a double in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has won nine of the 15 games in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; Matt Davidson belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning to lift the United States to a 4-2 win over the World team in the 2013 Futures Game. Davidson, an Arizona Diamondbacks prospect playing at Triple-A Reno, was named the game&#8217;s MVP after his homer erased a 2-1 deficit 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":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}