{"id":101573,"date":"2017-07-14T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=101573"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:49:14","slug":"pedro-martinez-honored-as-top-25-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/14\/pedro-martinez-honored-as-top-25-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Mart\u00ednez honored as top 25 athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101580\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Pedro-Martinez-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/>To commemorate the 25th year of The ESPYS, Dominican pitcher Pedro Mart\u00ednez was chosen among the top 25 athletes who have made the greatest mark on this quarter-century. Pedro Martinez is recognized for having led the Boston Red Sox in 2004 to their first World Series title in 86 years and entered the Baseball Hall of Fame on the first ballot. From 1997-2003, Pedro Mart\u00ednez won 3 Cy Young Awards and was admitted to Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The 25th Annual ESPY Awards were handed out on 12 July 2017 during a live ceremony broadcast on ABC. The awards honor the best achievements in sports, and winners are decided by fans voting online after the nominees are determined by the ESPY Select Nominating Committee. Pedro Mart\u00ednez\u2019s fellow Red Sox player, David Ort\u00edz was nominated for Best MLB Player. ESPY stands for Excellent in Sports Performance Yearly.<\/p>\n<p>See more on Pedro Mart\u00ednez\u2019s career:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87qyZpqOMBg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mCzL473qBeg\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTaSYUzCMDI\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the list of ESPYS winners for 2017:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldderby.com\/article\/2017\/espys-2017-full-list-of-espy-award-winners-simone-biles-news-357914682\/\" target=\"_blank\">GoldDerby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>14 July 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the 25th year of The ESPYS, Dominican pitcher Pedro Mart\u00ednez was chosen among the top 25 athletes who have made the greatest mark on this quarter-century. Pedro Martinez is recognized for having led the Boston Red Sox in 2004 to their first World Series title in 86 years and entered the Baseball Hall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/07\/14\/pedro-martinez-honored-as-top-25-athlete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}