{"id":6657,"date":"2013-10-21T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lester-to-start-world-series-opener-for-red-sox\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T15:15:00","slug":"lester-to-start-world-series-opener-for-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lester-to-start-world-series-opener-for-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester to start World Series opener for Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell made it official on Monday and said Jon Lester will start the opener of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Lester is 2-1 with a 2.33 ERA in three starts this postseason. He won the opener of the Division Series against Tampa Bay, then took the loss in Game 1 of the ALCS against Detroit before earning the win in Game 5 against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>As far as other roster changes for the World Series, which starts Wednesday at Fenway Park, Farrell wasn&#8217;t ready to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jon Lester will go Game 1,&#8221; said Farrell. &#8220;Other than that we&#8217;re still familiarizing ourselves with the St. Louis Cardinals and we&#8217;ll make a decision (on roster changes) soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox beat the Cardinals in the 2004 World Series after previously losing to St. Louis in the Fall Classic in 1946 and 1967.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell made it official on Monday and said Jon Lester will start the opener of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Lester is 2-1 with a 2.33 ERA in three starts this postseason. He won the opener of the Division Series against Tampa Bay, [&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":[177,188,189],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-red-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","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=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}