{"id":25355,"date":"2013-08-16T14:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25355"},"modified":"2013-08-16T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:50:52","slug":"phils-fire-manuel-sandberg-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25355","title":{"rendered":"Phils Fire Manuel, Sandberg New Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25357\" alt=\"Sandbergryne\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandbergryne.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandbergryne.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Sandbergryne-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>PHILADELPHIA (AP Aug 16, 2013) &#8211; Charlie Manuel has been fired as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, with his team out of the pennant race and in a tailspin since the All-Star break.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manuel was replaced by Hall of Famer and former Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, the Phillies&#8217; third base coach.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The team says Sandberg will take over beginning with Friday night&#8217;s game against the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Phillies have lost 19 of 24 since last month&#8217;s All-Star break and are 20 1\/2 games out of first in the NL East.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 69-year-old Manuel has been the Phillies&#8217; manager since the beginning of the 2005 season. He led Philadelphia to a World Series title in 2008 and brought the Phillies back to the series in 2009, where they lost to the Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0PHILADELPHIA (AP Aug 16, 2013) &#8211; Charlie Manuel has been fired as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, with his team out of the pennant race and in a tailspin since the All-Star break. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manuel was replaced by Hall of Famer and former Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25355"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25361,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25355\/revisions\/25361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}