{"id":5752,"date":"2013-10-01T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colon-gets-game-1-start-for-as\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:44:00","slug":"colon-gets-game-1-start-for-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/colon-gets-game-1-start-for-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Colon gets Game 1 start for A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin announced his starting rotation for the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers, with ace Bartolo Colon getting the start in Friday&#8217;s Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>Colon went 18-6 with a 2.65 ERA in 30 starts this season. His win total was second-best in the AL to his Game 1 counterpart Max Scherzer&#8217;s 21, while his ERA was second-best in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Sonny Gray will start Game 2 for the A&#8217;s, followed by Jarrod Parker in Game 3 and Dan Straily in Game 4, if necessary. Colon would go if the series lasts five games.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Griffin, who went 14-10 with a 3.83 ERA in 32 start this season, wasn&#8217;t an option for the A&#8217;s due to elbow tendinitis and is expected to be left off the ALDS roster.<\/p>\n<p>Gray went 5-3 with a 2.67 ERA in 12 games (10 starts) this season. His reward is facing off against Detroit&#8217;s Justin Verlander in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>Parker posted a 12-8 mark with a 3.97 ERA in 32 starts, while Straily went 10-8 with a 3.96 ERA in 27 starts. Parker will face Detroit&#8217;s Anibal Sanchez and Straily will go against Doug Fister in a potential Game 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin announced his starting rotation for the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers, with ace Bartolo Colon getting the start in Friday&#8217;s Game 1. Colon went 18-6 with a 2.65 ERA in 30 starts this season. His win total was second-best in the AL to [&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":[41,51,61,40,39,62],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}