{"id":32602,"date":"2013-05-29T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32602"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T14:04:49","slug":"bacon-steps-down-at-temple-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32602","title":{"rendered":"Bacon Steps Down at Temple City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_563\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mar-27-tc-sp-012-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563 \" alt=\"mar-27-tc-sp-012-2\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/mar-27-tc-sp-012-2.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Bacon resigns at Temple City after 16 years<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Temple City) &#8211; Barry Bacon\u00a0stepped down as the\u00a0baseball coach\u00a0at Temple City Tuesday after 16 seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;I have two boys who need their Dad at home,&#8221;\u00a0Bacon said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a simple as that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bacon guided the Rams to the CIF Division 4 Final in 2012 where they fell to Palm Desert 4-0.\u00a0Temple City had a magical run\u00a0last year knocking off Don Lugo\u00a0and Granite Hills before shutting out St. Bonaventure in the semi finals. Twin brothers Corey and Calvin Copping anchored a solid\u00a0pitching staff that sparked the\u00a0playoff run.<\/p>\n<p>Temple City also won\u00a0four Rio Hondo League titles overall under Bacon, who spent 23 years total\u00a0coaching baseball at the school. Bacon also coached\u00a0Ryan Tucker who was drafted by the Florida Marlins\u00a0in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams finished\u00a07-17 this season and missed the playoffs.\u00a0It was only the second time Temple City missed\u00a0the playoffs during Bacon&#8217;s 16 years. The only other time the Rams did\u00a0 not play in the post season was in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Temple City) &#8211; Barry Bacon\u00a0stepped down as the\u00a0baseball coach\u00a0at Temple City Tuesday after 16 seasons at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32611,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32602\/revisions\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}