{"id":1523,"date":"2008-04-06T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/06\/houston-astros-at-chicago-cubs-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T03:06:00","slug":"houston-astros-at-chicago-cubs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/houston-astros-at-chicago-cubs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had planned to eat brunch at Uncommon Ground on the corner of Clark St. and Grace Ave. But, by the time we arrived (12:30 pm), it was a 45 minute wait. Since the Cubs game started at 1:20 pm, we decided to eat elsewhere and chose Yak-zies.<\/p>\n<p>Since we were with Nicole\u2019s cousin, Gina Skreens, we needed to buy an extra ticket. I thought we could buy a ticket for under face value, but the warm weather increased demand. The game was not sold out but the cheapest seat at the box office was $24. We bought a single in the Upper Deck for face value ($16) after some negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs won 3-2 after Derrek Lee hit the game-winning home run in the bottom of the 7th inning. Carlos Zambrano\u2019s scoreless inning streak ended in the top of the 3rd inning at 22.1 innings \u2013 a new career high for Zambrano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had planned to eat brunch at Uncommon Ground on the corner of Clark St. and Grace Ave. But, by the time we arrived (12:30 pm), it was a 45 minute wait. Since the Cubs game started at 1:20 pm, we decided to eat elsewhere and chose Yak-zies.<br \/>\nSince we were with Nicole\u2019s cousin, Gina Skreens, we needed to buy an extra ticket. I thought we could buy a ticket for under face value, but the warm weather increased demand. The game was not sold out but the cheapest seat at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}