{"id":1766,"date":"2009-05-03T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/03\/number-31-retired-marlins-at-cubs\/"},"modified":"2009-05-03T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T03:12:00","slug":"number-31-retired-marlins-at-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/number-31-retired-marlins-at-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 31 Retired: Marlins at Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Chicago Cubs retired uniform #31 in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins and future Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux. The last number retirement ceremony I attended was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/BoxScores\/Baseball\/MLB\/2003\/09-28-2003_Pirates_Cubs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">September 28, 2003<\/a> when the Cubs retired Ron Santo\u2019s #10 after clinching the N.L. Central Division Title the day before. The first 5,000 fans who entered the park received an 11\u201dx14\u201d replica of the two paintings given to each pitcher from the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><u>Pre Game Dining<br \/><\/u>Before the game, the Ultimate Sports wife and I ate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byronshotdogs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Byron\u2019s Hot Dogs<\/a> \u2013 a hot dog stand located at 1017 Irving Park Rd.<\/p>\n<p><u>The Game<br \/><\/u>Derrek Lee hit a grand slam in the 5th inning to lead the Cubs to a 6-4 win over the Florida Marlins. Carlos Zambrano, who injured himself running to first base in the top of the 5th inning, earned career win number 99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Chicago Cubs retired uniform #31 in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins and future Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux. The last number retirement ceremony I attended was on September 28, 2003 when the Cubs retired Ron Santo\u2019s #10 after clinching the N.L. Central Division Title the day before. The first 5,000 fans who entered the park received an 11\u201dx14\u201d replica of the two paintings given to each pitcher from the Cubs.<br \/>\nPre Game DiningBefore the game, the Ultimate Sports wife and I ate Byron\u2019s Hot Dogs &#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\/1766"}],"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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}