{"id":1081,"date":"2010-09-25T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T22:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2010-09-25T17:04:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T22:04:36","slug":"adam-laroche-wears-the-golden-sombrero-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1081","title":{"rendered":"Adam LaRoche Wears The Golden Sombrero (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1082\" title=\"laroche\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laroche1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s just say that <strong>Adam LaRoche<\/strong> has had better games than Friday night&#8217;s contest against <strong>Clayton Kershaw<\/strong> and the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0 The strikeout-prone first baseman, who has cooled off after a <a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/730\" target=\"_blank\">productive month of August<\/a>, notched four strikeouts in four atbats in Friday&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p>As if wearing the golden sombrero wasn&#8217;t humiliating in itself, LaRoche looked utterly bewildered in his three at-bats against Kershaw.\u00a0 However, it was his third and final at-bat against the young lefthander that truly epitomized the extent of LaRoche&#8217;s struggles at the plate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is the final pitch from that third at-bat, in which LaRoche swings at a 56ft. changeup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[hdplay id=23 ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, your excuse for such a hack is still probably better than his.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just say that Adam LaRoche has had better games than Friday night&#8217;s contest against Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers.\u00a0 The strikeout-prone first baseman, who has cooled off after a productive month of August, notched four strikeouts in four atbats in Friday&#8217;s loss. As if wearing the golden sombrero wasn&#8217;t humiliating in itself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,13,14,775],"tags":[886,509,685,887,559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}