{"id":5817,"date":"2013-10-02T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cleveland-carries-11-pitchers-for-wild-card-game\/"},"modified":"2013-10-02T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:54:00","slug":"cleveland-carries-11-pitchers-for-wild-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cleveland-carries-11-pitchers-for-wild-card-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland carries 11 pitchers for wild card game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians finalized their roster for Wednesday&#8217;s American League wild card game and will carry 11 pitchers into their matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie right-hander Danny Salazar is slated to start the contest and will be joined by fellow rotation members Corey Kluber and Scott Kazmir.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Masterson, who moved to the bullpen late in the season after going 14-10 in 29 starts, joins fellow right-handers Cody Allen, Joe Smith, Matt Albers, Bryan Shaw and Chris Perez, along with lefties Marc Rzepczynski and Rich Hill as the Tribe&#8217;s relievers against the Rays.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s infield consists of six players, including first baseman Nick Swisher, All-Star second baseman Jason Kipnis, shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall and utilitymen Mike Aviles and Jose Ramirez.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brantley, Michael Bourn, Drew Stubbs, Matt Carson and Ryan Raburn make up Cleveland&#8217;s outfield, while Yan Gomes and Carlos Santana are the catchers and Jason Giambi is the designated hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland, OH (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Cleveland Indians finalized their roster for Wednesday&#8217;s American League wild card game and will carry 11 pitchers into their matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays at Progressive Field. Rookie right-hander Danny Salazar is slated to start the contest and will be joined by fellow rotation members Corey Kluber and Scott [&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":[54,53,55],"class_list":["post-5817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-indians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","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=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}