{"id":3533,"date":"2005-08-10T12:56:21","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T19:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/10\/sometimes-you-win-sometimes-you-dont\/"},"modified":"2005-08-10T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T19:56:21","slug":"sometimes-you-win-sometimes-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/sometimes-you-win-sometimes-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tMoneybags took the opening game of the series last night owing to some shoddy pitching in the first two innings:<\/a><\/p>\n

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First and foremost among the reasons for Oakland’s 9-2 loss was ace righty Rich Harden’s worst start of the year. He took the mound on time at about 7:05 p.m., but he didn’t really start pitching until 7:30 or so.<\/p>\n

Harden, who was 7-1 in his previous nine starts, gave up six earned runs on eight hits in the first two innings of a game that felt an awful lot like Mark Mulder’s implosion in the penultimate game of the 2004 season, complete with uncharacteristic defensive failings by a typically surehanded defense.<\/p>\n

“It was one of those days,” Harden said, “where anything and everything that could go wrong, did.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s OK, Zito goes tonight and he’s untouchable. The A’s were playing like they had playoff jitters last night, so it’s good to get that out of the system. While they’re a very talented team, they are a bit young and inexperienced. When you have four legitimate contenders for Rookie of the Year, stuff is gonna happen.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moneybags took the opening game of the series last night owing to some shoddy pitching in the first two innings: First and foremost among the reasons for Oakland’s 9-2 loss was ace righty Rich Harden’s worst start of the year. He took the mound on time at about 7:05 p.m., but he didn’t really start … Continue reading “Sometimes you win, sometimes you don’t”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-UZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}