{"id":32799,"date":"2018-10-13T23:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32799"},"modified":"2018-10-13T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T23:46:10","slug":"astros-vs-brewers-in-world-series-another-mlb-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32799","title":{"rendered":"Astros vs. Brewers in World Series? Another MLB first?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>For those of you who might be interested in truly useless information, I have a bit of it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball&#8217;s league championship series are underway. The American League series features the defending Series champs Houston Astros vs. the Boston Red Sox; the National League pits the Milwaukee Brewers against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on this.<\/p>\n<p>If the Brewers win the NLCS and the Astros win the ALCS, the 2018 World Series will be played by teams that both have appeared in the Fall Classic representing <em>both leagues<\/em>. The Chicago White Sox swept the Astros in 2005; the 1982 Brewers lost the Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>A member of my family is a diehard Dodgers fan. So, with all due respect to him, I&#8217;ll pull for the Brewers and the Astros to make MLB history.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. Is that totally useless info \u2026 or what?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re most welcome.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who might be interested in truly useless information, I have a bit of it for you. Major League Baseball&#8217;s league championship series are underway. The American League series features the defending Series champs Houston Astros vs. the Boston Red Sox; the National League pits the Milwaukee Brewers against the Los Angeles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Astros vs. Brewers in World Series? Another MLB first?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7386,3105,5299],"class_list":["post-32799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-houston-astros","tag-mlb","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32802,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799\/revisions\/32802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}