{"id":5747,"date":"2013-10-01T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/scherzer-not-verlander-gets-game-1-nod-for-tigers\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T03:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T03:10:11","slug":"scherzer-not-verlander-gets-game-1-nod-for-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/scherzer-not-verlander-gets-game-1-nod-for-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer, not Verlander, gets Game 1 nod for Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland announced his starting rotation for the American League Division Series against the Oakland Athletics, with 21-game winner Max Scherzer getting the Game 1 start for the defending AL champs.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer gets the nod for Friday&#8217;s opener over Justin Verlander, who had a down year in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer was 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA in 32 starts this season. He led the majors in wins, was second with 240 strikeouts and was fifth in the AL in ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Verlander, who will start Game 2, posted a 13-12 record with a 3.46 ERA and 217 strikeouts in 34 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Anibal Sanchez and Doug Fister round out the four-man rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez led the AL with a 2.57 ERA while going 14-8 in 29 starts, while Fister went 14-9 with a 3.67 ERA in 32 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Scherzer would get the Game 5 start if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit, MI (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland announced his starting rotation for the American League Division Series against the Oakland Athletics, with 21-game winner Max Scherzer getting the Game 1 start for the defending AL champs. Scherzer gets the nod for Friday&#8217;s opener over Justin Verlander, who had a down year in 2013. [&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":[51,61,62],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","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=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}