{"id":1830,"date":"2011-05-26T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:30:25","slug":"garner-pitcher-mccreery-now-known-as-the-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Garner pitcher McCreery now known as the American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scottyimagesCAVZ3D251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scottyimagesCAVZ3D251.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"scottyimagesCAVZ3D25\" width=\"172\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1832\" \/><\/a>Scotty McCreery, a former pitcher for Garner High School, is the new American Idol singing contest winner. As such, his baseball career is likely over.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans could have used the right-hander this season as they finished the season with a losing record at 11-13 after losing their final game 9-1 to Pine Forest in the first round of the state high school playoffs. Garner did go on a late-season run, winning four of its last five regular-season games as they were watching McCreery go further and further in the weekly Idol competition.<\/p>\n<p>McCreery had a stellar 6-1 record and 1.04 ERA as a junior varsity player last year. As a freshman, McCreery was an impressive 4-0 with a 3.20 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>In his final start as a pitcher last summer, he threw a complete-game shutout against Fuquay-Varina. It was probably the last game the new country singing star, who earned a $1 million recording contract, will ever pitch. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"380\" id=\"_34691610\" data=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/presentation\/v2\/flash\/video\/vp-wral.swf?v=20100913a\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/presentation\/v2\/flash\/video\/vp-wral.swf?v=20100913a\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wral.com\/presentation\/v2\/flash\/video\/vp-wral.swf?v=20100913a\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"index\" value=\"-1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config={'plugins':{},'url':'http:\/\/www.wral.com\/entertainment\/video\/9646196\/?version=fpconfig'}\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty McCreery, a former pitcher for Garner High School, is the new American Idol singing contest winner. As such, his baseball career is likely over&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}