{"id":1233,"date":"2010-10-06T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2010-10-06T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T03:32:10","slug":"is-roy-halladays-no-hitter-really-that-surprising-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1233","title":{"rendered":"Is Roy Halladay&#8217;s no-hitter really that surprising? (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Roy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1234\" title=\"Roy1\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Roy1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>In baseball, the term &#8220;<em>sure thing<\/em>&#8221; is one that is seldom used, especially when predicting the success of a pitcher.\u00a0 However, after <strong>Roy Halladay&#8217;s no-hitter<\/strong> against the <strong>Cincinnati Reds<\/strong> on Wednesday afternoon, we all need to seriously consider whether he is worthy of such a label.<\/p>\n<p>What else can be said about Roy Halladay? This is what he does.\u00a0 Each and every time that he takes the mound, everyone that is either involved in or watching the game almost assumes that Halladay will be&#8230;well, Roy Halladay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It just seems like the guy does everything right from the way that he prepares for a game to how he handles the media afterward; oh yeah, and there&#8217;s all that dominating he does in between.\u00a0 The man is a strike-throwing, inning-eating, complete game machine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>[hdplay id=25 ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Roy for etching his name in baseball history after throwing the 2nd no-hitter in postseason play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/getty1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1235\" title=\"Courtesy of ESPN\/Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/getty1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy of ESPN\/Getty Images\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/getty1-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/getty1.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s obvious that a pitcher is truly special when you aren&#8217;t entirely surprised after he throws a no-hitter&#8230;in his first career, postseason appearance.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In baseball, the term &#8220;sure thing&#8221; is one that is seldom used, especially when predicting the success of a pitcher.\u00a0 However, after Roy Halladay&#8217;s no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday afternoon, we all need to seriously consider whether he is worthy of such a label. What else can be said about Roy Halladay? This [&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":[674,639,968,944,965,966,967,52,964,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"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=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}