{"id":56068,"date":"2023-10-24T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56068"},"modified":"2023-10-24T12:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T12:08:08","slug":"home-field-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56068","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Home-field advantage&#8217;?"},"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>OK, kids, we now know the first two games of the 2023 Major League Baseball World Series will occur at Globe-Life Field in Arlington, giving the Texas Rangers &#8220;home-field advantage&#8221; in the best-of-seven series.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; wait. Is that &#8220;advantage&#8221; worth having?<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers and the Houston Astros played their guts out in the American League Championship Series. The &#8220;away&#8221; team won every game. The Rangers won their four games against the &#8216;Stros in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>So, this year, allow me to declare that the &#8220;home-field advantage&#8221; that the Rangers have might not matter &#8230; unless of course they can peel away one win on their home field.<\/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>OK, kids, we now know the first two games of the 2023 Major League Baseball World Series will occur at Globe-Life Field in Arlington, giving the Texas Rangers &#8220;home-field advantage&#8221; in the best-of-seven series. But &#8230; wait. Is that &#8220;advantage&#8221; worth having? The Rangers and the Houston Astros played their guts out in the American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Home-field advantage&#8217;?<\/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":[9,17],"tags":[3105,4688,5299],"class_list":["post-56068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-mlb","tag-texas-rangers","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56068","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=56068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56069,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56068\/revisions\/56069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}