{"id":1561,"date":"2008-05-16T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/jim-edmonds-returns-to-wrigley-field\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T16:49:00","slug":"jim-edmonds-returns-to-wrigley-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/jim-edmonds-returns-to-wrigley-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Edmonds Returns to Wrigley Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an uneventful Wednesday night, yesterday had many more interesting stories. <\/p>\n<p>1) Jim Edmonds made his return to Wrigley Field as a Chicago Cub.  In his first at-bat he received cheers after he singled but was booed after not producing in subsequent at-bats.  I was at the game on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Baseball\/MLB\/2004\/07-19-2004_Cardinals_Cubs.htm\">July 19, 2004<\/a> when Carlos Zambrano was ejected for throwing at Edmonds after a Scott Rolen home run.  That was after Zambrano yelled at Edmonds to run the bases after Edmonds hit a home run off Zambrano onto Sheffield Ave.  From a fan\u2019s perspective that was one of the more entertaining sequences of events I have witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>2) Greg Maddux pitched for probably his last time at Wrigley Field.  He received a standing ovation when he left the game in the bottom of the 5th.<\/p>\n<p>3) Ryan Dempster almost threw the first shutout I have seen since Rich Hill shut out the Cincinnati Reds on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Baseball\/MLB\/2006\/09-16-2006_Reds_Cubs.htm\">September 16, 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an uneventful Wednesday night, yesterday had many more interesting stories.<br \/>\n1) Jim Edmonds made his return to Wrigley Field as a Chicago Cub.  In his first at-bat he received cheers after he singled but was booed after not producing in subsequent at-bats.  I was at the game on July 19, 2004 when Carlos Zambrano was ejected for throwing at Edmonds after a Scott Rolen home run.  That was after Zambrano yelled at Edmonds to run the bases after Edmonds hit a home run off Zambrano onto &#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\/1561"}],"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=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}