{"id":69845,"date":"2020-08-17T00:20:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69845"},"modified":"2020-08-17T00:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T07:35:39","slug":"the-ten-8-17-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=69845","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 8\/17\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=51887\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51887\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/THE-TEN-NEW--e1455684777760.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51887\" \/><\/a>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. The New Orleans Pelicans dismissed Head Coach Alvin Gentry after five years. <\/p>\n<p>2. The Portland Trail Blazers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 126-122 Saturday to win the Western Conference play in game and earn the right to play the Lakers in the first round of the NBA playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>3. The Reds-Pittsburgh Pirates games scheduled for Saturday and Sunday were postponed after a Cincinnati player tested positive for the coronavirus. <\/p>\n<p>4. Boston Bruins goalie Tukka Rask left the NHL bubble in Canada and opted out of the NHL playoffs due to family concerns.  <\/p>\n<p>5. The Green Bay Packers signed defensive tackle Kenny Clark to a four-year, $70 million extension. <\/p>\n<p>6. NBA Western Conference Playoffs, 1st Round: #1 Lakers vs. #8 Portland, #2 Clippers vs. #7 Dallas, #3 Denver vs. #6 Utah, #4 Houston vs. #5 Oklahoma City. All series are best of seven. <\/p>\n<p>7. NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs, 1st Round: #1 Milwaukee vs. #8 Orlando, #2 Toronto vs. #7 Brooklyn, #3 Boston vs. #6 Philadelphia, #4 Indiana vs. #5 Miami. All series are best of seven. <\/p>\n<p>8. New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole has won 20 straight regular season games over his last 27 starts dating back to last year.    <\/p>\n<p>9. The Dodgers hit four home runs and went on to beat the Angels 8-3 Sunday to complete a three game sweep of the series. Dodger catcher Keibert Ruiz homered in his first major league at bat as the Dodgers improved to 16-7 overall.   <\/p>\n<p>10. On this day in 1992 the Dodgers Kevin Gross threw a no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium.                     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69845","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69860,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69845\/revisions\/69860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}