{"id":731,"date":"2011-05-25T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/former-dirtbag-pitcher-called-up-by-detroit-tigers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T16:57:00","slug":"former-dirtbag-pitcher-called-up-by-detroit-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/former-dirtbag-pitcher-called-up-by-detroit-tigers","title":{"rendered":"Former Dirtbag Pitcher Called Up by Detroit Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\"><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><strong>2:54pm | <\/strong>Former  Dirtbag Adam Wilk was called up by the Detroit Tigers Tuesday, becoming  the 13th Long Beach State player in Major League Baseball this season  and the 39th player in program history. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span><\/span>Wilk  spent three years with the Dirtbags, culminating in his junior year  when he led the team with a 7-4 record and a 2.78 ERA, earning  second-team All-Big West honors as a starting pitcher. Over three  seasons, Wilk had a 10-4 record and a 3.04 ERA in 52 appearances on the  mound. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span><\/span>After  the 2009 season, Wilk was drafted by the Tigers in the 11th Round of  the MLB draft, and he became the first player of that class to reach the  major leagues. He is the first new Dirtbags player to earn his first  time in the league since Bob Cramer was called up last September to the  Oakland A\u2019s as part of the roster expansion. <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><span><\/span>In  eight starts with AAA Toledo, Wilk had 32 strikeouts and just five  walks over 49 innings pitched with a 3.86 ERA. The 13 major leaguers in  2011 for Long Beach State is the most of any collegiate program in the  nation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Dirtbag Adam Wilk was called up by the Detroit Tigers Tuesday, becoming the 13th Long Beach State player in Major League Baseball this season and the 39th player in program history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}