{"id":3984,"date":"2011-05-27T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T16:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:01:02","slug":"golden-sombrero-alex-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3984","title":{"rendered":"Golden Sombrero: Alex Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alexgordongoldensombrero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3985\" title=\"alexgordongoldensombrero\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alexgordongoldensombrero-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alexgordongoldensombrero-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alexgordongoldensombrero-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/alexgordongoldensombrero.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 1: <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gordoal01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Alex  Gordon<\/a><\/strong> struck out on a foul tip against <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/arrieja01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jake  Arrieta<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 3: <\/strong>Gordon hit a ground-rule double to left-center off Arrieta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5: <\/strong>Gordon struck out swinging against Arrieta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 7: <\/strong>Gordon struck out on a foul tip against <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsji04.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jim  Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 9: <\/strong>Gordon struck out swinging against <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gonzami02.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Mike  Gonzalez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Line: <\/strong>1-5, 2B, 4 K<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes: <\/strong>Although Gordon did a lot of whiffing in his sombrero on Wednesday, he did salvage some respect by doubling in the fifth.\u00a0 The hit saved the rejuvenated slugger from falling victim to the platinum sombrero\u2014or as a reader suggested it be called, \u201cThe Mongolian War Helmet,\u201d\u2014a feat yet to occur this season.\u00a0 One thing is certain: Gordon was involved in one hell of a game of <em>just a tip <\/em>on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total 2011 Sombreros: <\/strong>28<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 1: Alex Gordon struck out on a foul tip against Jake Arrieta Top 3: Gordon hit a ground-rule double to left-center off Arrieta Top 5: Gordon struck out swinging against Arrieta Top 7: Gordon struck out on a foul tip against Jim Johnson Top 9: Gordon struck out swinging against Mike Gonzalez Final Line: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,2034,6,16,11,13,14],"tags":[1490,2284,624,2110,887,2157,2285,2286,302,357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"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=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}