{"id":29042,"date":"2013-10-02T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29042"},"modified":"2013-10-04T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:12:53","slug":"reds-fire-dusty-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=29042","title":{"rendered":"Reds Fire Dusty Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0CINCINNATI (AP Oct 4, 2013) &#8211; The Reds have fired manager Dusty Baker, who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn&#8217;t get them past the first round of the playoffs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The move came three days after the Reds lost the wild-card playoff in Pittsburgh 6-2 on Tuesday night, ending the season with their sixth straight loss.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Baker had one year left on his contract.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He took over a rebuilding team in 2008 and led it to three 90-win seasons and playoff appearances in the last four years, their best run since Sparky Anderson managed the Big Red Machine to two World Series titles in the 1970s.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati couldn&#8217;t get past the opening round of the playoffs, however, building pressure for change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0CINCINNATI (AP Oct 4, 2013) &#8211; The Reds have fired manager Dusty Baker, who led them to their best stretch of success since the Big Red Machine but couldn&#8217;t get them past the first round of the playoffs. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The move came three days after the Reds lost the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29042","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\/29042","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=29042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29045,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042\/revisions\/29045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}