{"id":36838,"date":"2017-07-26T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=36838"},"modified":"2017-07-26T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:28:17","slug":"leading-off-darvish-texas-finale-cobb-mound-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/leading-off-darvish-texas-finale-cobb-mound-rays.html","title":{"rendered":"LEADING OFF: Darvish Texas finale? Cobb on mound for Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">LEADING OFF: Darvish Texas finale? Cobb on mound for Rays<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A look at what&#8217;s happening all around the majors today:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">DARVISH TEXAS FINALE?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish makes his final scheduled start before Monday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline with growing speculation that the potential free agent could be dealt to another team. Darvish (6-8, 3.44 ERA) faces Miami and Ichiro Suzuki, another standout player from Japan. Darvish, an All-Star this year for the fourth time in his five seasons played in Texas, is 0-4 with a 4.26 ERA in his last seven starts. He struck out a season-high 12 over eight innings at Tampa Bay last Friday. His only career shutout \u2014 and only nine-inning complete game \u2014 came the only time he previously faced the Marlins three years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">YOUTH MOVEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The Tampa Bay Rays will have their 500th consecutive start by a pitcher under 30 years old, the major leagues&#8217; longest current run, when 29-year-old Alex Cobb faces the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Catcher Wilson Ramos is expected to be behind the plate for the game, two days after being cut on the head by a piece of Ruben Tejada&#8217;s broken bat. The cut required seven staples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">BEEN A LONG TIME<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Marco Estrada starts against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday, hoping to win for the first time since May 27. Estrada is 0-5 with a 9.52 ERA in nine starts since beating Texas on May 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2017\/07\/25\/leading-off-darvish-texas-finale-cobb-on-mound-for-rays\/104003078\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/mlb\/leading-off-darvish-texas-finale-cobb-mound-rays.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEADING OFF: Darvish Texas finale? Cobb on mound for Rays A look at what&#8217;s happening all around the majors today: DARVISH TEXAS FINALE? Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish makes his final scheduled start before Monday&#8217;s non-waiver trade deadline with growing speculation that the potential free agent could be dealt to another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[929],"tags":[26819,26815,26817,26816,26814],"class_list":["post-36838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-texas-mlb-game","tag-texas-mlb-players","tag-texas-mlb-schedule","tag-texas-mlb-stadium","tag-texas-mlb-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}