{"id":48510,"date":"1998-09-29T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-09-29T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-chicago-cubs-and-sammy-sosa-make-it-to-playoffs\/"},"modified":"1998-09-29T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-09-29T01:43:56","slug":"the-chicago-cubs-and-sammy-sosa-make-it-to-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/09\/29\/the-chicago-cubs-and-sammy-sosa-make-it-to-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs and Sammy Sosa make it to playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans throughout the nation celebrated yesterday when Sammy Sosa accomplished his goal &#8212; to lead the Chicago Cubs to the Major League playoffs. The Cubs survived a San Francisco Giants&#8217; rally and defeated these 5-3 in their home Wrigley Field in the wild-card tiebreaker. They will face Atlanta in the series that begins Wednesday in Atlanta. This is their first playoffs since 1989 and they have a new chance at making it to the World Series for the first time since 1945. For information on yesterday&#8217;s game, see http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/cubs\/article\/0,1051,ART-15683,00.html <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans throughout the nation celebrated yesterday when Sammy Sosa accomplished his goal &#8212; to lead the Chicago Cubs to the Major League playoffs. The Cubs survived a San Francisco Giants&#8217; rally and defeated these 5-3 in their home Wrigley Field in the wild-card tiebreaker. They will face Atlanta in the series that begins Wednesday in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/09\/29\/the-chicago-cubs-and-sammy-sosa-make-it-to-playoffs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48510"}],"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=48510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}