{"id":158258,"date":"2022-10-09T02:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=158258"},"modified":"2022-10-09T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T02:40:07","slug":"baseball-sucks-sometimes-blue-jays-2022-season-ends-with-wild-card-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/baseball-sucks-sometimes-blue-jays-2022-season-ends-with-wild-card-loss","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Baseball Sucks Sometimes&#8217;: Blue Jays&#8217; 2022 Season Ends With Wild Card Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite leading by seven runs in Game 2 of the Wild Card series, the Blue Jays&#8217; 2022 season ends in heartbreak. For the first time all series, the stadium was silent. As George Springer and Bo Bichette lay sprawled on the outfield turf, reality set in. The Blue Jays&#8217; seven-run lead was gone, their star centerfielder was hurt, and the season was slipping toward finality. There were blips of crowd noise after that eighth-inning collision, but the overwhelming undertone was silence. As Cal Raleigh crossed the plate in the top of the ninth, scoring the Mariners&#8217; winning run and completing the comeback, only a small section of Seattle fans could be heard&#8212;the backing track to the end of the Blue Jays&#8217; 2022 season. &#8220;Sometimes the ball doesn&#8217;t go your way,&#8221; manager John Schneider said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s the part of baseball that sucks.&#8221; View the original article to see embedded media. Five innings through Saturday&#8217;s second Wild Card game, the Blue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite leading by seven runs in Game 2 of the Wild Card series, the Blue Jays&#8217; 2022 season ends in heartbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[220,468,202,58],"class_list":["post-158258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-card-game","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}