{"id":416,"date":"2009-06-18T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-06-18T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T17:57:11","slug":"fransisco-rodriguez-vs-mariano-rivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Fransisco Rodriguez vs. Mariano Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York has two of the best closing pitchers in baseball. For 14 years, the New York Yankees have had a historic closer in Mariano Rivera. Rivera has 491 saves and his best year was 2004 with 53 saves. He has a career ERA. of 2.29 racking up 958 strikeouts. He has a nasty cutter and a flaming fastball.<br \/>\nAcross the river in Flushing Queens, the New York Mets have an all-star closer in Fransisco Rodriquez. He also is known as K-Rod. He made history in 2008, reaching 62 saves getting pass Bobby Thigpen for most saves in a single season. He did have 7 blown\u00a0saves last year one being against the Mets. Here in 2009, K-Rod was perfect until June 12th when the Mets played the Yankees. He did get Alex Rodriguez on a popup to end the game, but Luis Castillo dropped the ball and Fransisco Rodriguez got his first blown save of the season. He was 16 for 16. He is now 17 for 18.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the better closer in New York?\u00a0The historic Mariano Rivera or the always perfect Fransisco Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com\/Atlanta+Braves+v+New+York+Mets+SRAPf38b4FYl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.costaricapages.com\/panama\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/mariano-rivera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York has two of the best closing pitchers in baseball. For 14 years, the New York Yankees have had a historic closer in Mariano Rivera. Rivera has 491 saves and his best year was 2004 with 53 saves. He has a career ERA. of 2.29 racking up 958 strikeouts. He has a nasty cutter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ntastic4.com\/knights\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}