{"id":4955,"date":"2012-10-03T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2012-10-03T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T20:46:14","slug":"nats-nl-east-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"Nats NL East Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Natsbanner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4956\" title=\"Natsbanner\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Natsbanner-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Natsbanner-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Natsbanner-175x175.png 175w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Natsbanner.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP Oct 3, 2012)\u00a0&#8211; The NL East champion Washington Nationals secured home-field advantage throughout the postseason by beatingthe Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 Wednesday for their majors-high 98th<br \/>\nvictory, with Ryan Zimmerman homering moments after the Teddy<br \/>\nRoosevelt mascot won the Presidents Race at Nationals Park for the first time.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By winning their regular-season finale, the Nationals clinched<br \/>\ntop seeding for the NL playoffs and will open on the road Sunday at<br \/>\nthe winner of Friday&#8217;s wild-card game between Atlanta and St.<br \/>\nLouis.<\/p>\n<p>Game 2 will also be at the wild-card winner&#8217;s stadium,<br \/>\nbefore the best-of-five series shifts to Washington.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Before Wednesday&#8217;s game, the Nationals were fitted for hats with<br \/>\npostseason patches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP Oct 3, 2012)\u00a0&#8211; The NL East champion Washington Nationals secured home-field advantage throughout the postseason by beatingthe Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 Wednesday for their majors-high 98th victory, with Ryan Zimmerman homering moments after the Teddy Roosevelt mascot won the Presidents Race at Nationals Park for the first time. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","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\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}