{"id":748,"date":"2013-08-02T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T12:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2013-08-05T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:29:59","slug":"baseball-is-a-game-of-3s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/baseball-is-a-game-of-3s\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball is a game of 3s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed last night that baseball is a game of many 3s.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows you get 3 strikes and each team gets 3 outs per inning.<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s also 3 x 3 innings per game<br \/>\n3 x 3 defensive men are on the field a time<br \/>\nThere are 3 x 10 ft between bases<br \/>\nBases are at 3 x 3 x 10 degrees from each other<br \/>\nGames last about 3 hours<br \/>\nMost series are played in 3s<br \/>\nThere are 3 divisions per league<br \/>\nThere are 3 x 10 teams in the MLB<br \/>\nThere are three levels of minor league teams, the highest being triple A<br \/>\nEach team plays 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 2 games per year<br \/>\nIncluding spring training, players play 3 x 3 months of the year<br \/>\nBabe Ruth, who many consider the best player of all time, wore number 3<br \/>\nIf you get a hit in 1\/3 of your at bats, you&#8217;re doing really well<br \/>\nIf your team wins 2\/3 of your games, you&#8217;re guaranteed to win your division<br \/>\nIf your team loses 2\/3 of your games, you&#8217;re guaranteed to lose your division<\/p>\n<p>Did I miss any?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed last night that baseball is a game of many 3s. Everyone knows you get 3 strikes and each team gets 3 outs per inning. But there&#8217;s also 3 x 3 innings per game 3 x 3 defensive men are on the field a time There are 3 x 10 ft between bases Bases &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/baseball-is-a-game-of-3s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Baseball is a game of 3s&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}