{"id":1040,"date":"2010-09-21T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2010-09-21T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T18:28:21","slug":"national-league%e2%80%99s-wild-west-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1040","title":{"rendered":"National League\u2019s Wild West Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/san-diego-padres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1042\" title=\"san-diego-padres\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/san-diego-padres-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/san-diego-padres-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/san-diego-padres.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Only a few weeks remain in Major League Baseball\u2019s regular season and there\u2019s no reason for fans not to be thrilled; we\u2019ve got fantastic finishes shaping up all around the league. In the National League West, the collapsing San Diego Padres, steady San Francisco Giants, and surging Colorado Rockies are battling for the division crown as well as the NL wildcard. Every win is now crucial for each of these teams, and all those seemingly worthless games from back in the spring have suddenly become relevant.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the last week of August, things in the NL West looked to be settling down. The Padres, who\u2019d been leading the division most of the year, were 27 games over .500 and had their biggest advantage of the season over their upstate rival Giants, at 7.5 games. The Rockies were less than 10 games over .500 and more than 10 games behind San Diego, looking like they were going to coast to a mediocre finish. Then as Labor Day approached upheaval began and we were all reminded why a 162 game schedule is a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youbeenblinded.com\/national-league%E2%80%99s-wild-west-wrap-up\/9264\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading &#8216;National League&#8217;s Wild West Wrap-Up&#8217;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few weeks remain in Major League Baseball\u2019s regular season and there\u2019s no reason for fans not to be thrilled; we\u2019ve got fantastic finishes shaping up all around the league. In the National League West, the collapsing San Diego Padres, steady San Francisco Giants, and surging Colorado Rockies are battling for the division crown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[292,6,11,13,14],"tags":[649,845,428,3456,844,843,210,584,846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}