{"id":3370,"date":"2011-03-28T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:53:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:53:49","slug":"the-first-golden-sombrero-of-2011-gordon-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3370","title":{"rendered":"The First Golden Sombrero of 2011: Gordon Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gordiesombrero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3371\" title=\"gordiesombrero\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gordiesombrero-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gordiesombrero-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gordiesombrero.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is with deep regret that I bring to you the first golden sombrero of the 2011 MLB season, mostly because he\u2019s my favorite player.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/beckhgo01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Gordon  Beckham<\/a><\/strong>, the face of the Chicago White Sox for years to come, fanned four times in four at-bats on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Poor Gordie; he doesn\u2019t deserve such humiliation.\u00a0 And of all things, a Spring Training sombrero! It just breaks my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s a recap of how it happened:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup> inning: Beckham is called out on strikes against Brewers\u2019 starter <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/estrama01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Marco  Estrada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> inning: Beckham strikes out swinging against Estrada<\/p>\n<p>5<sup>th<\/sup> inning: Beckham strikes out swinging against Estrada<\/p>\n<p>7<sup>th<\/sup> inning: Beckham strikes out swinging against reliever <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/difelmi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Mike  Difelice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a team, the White Sox struck out six times in the game, four of which were Beckham\u2019s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s far-fetched to argue that this may be the only time that Beckham wears the sombrero in his career.\u00a0 Still, poor Gordie.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep regret that I bring to you the first golden sombrero of the 2011 MLB season, mostly because he\u2019s my favorite player.\u00a0 That\u2019s right, Gordon Beckham, the face of the Chicago White Sox for years to come, fanned four times in four at-bats on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Poor Gordie; he doesn\u2019t deserve such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,11,13,14],"tags":[2028,264,887,263,193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370"}],"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=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}