{"id":456049,"date":"2023-08-22T19:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456049"},"modified":"2023-08-22T19:05:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:05:01","slug":"dave-martinez-inks-2-year-extension-with-nationals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dave-martinez-inks-2-year-extension-with-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Martinez inks 2-year extension with Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals head coach Dave Martinez has agreed to a 2-year deal extension with the franchise he led to the 2019 World Series championship.<\/p>\n<p>Dave\u2019s new contract was 1<sup>st<\/sup> reported by The Athletic, which also shares that veteran GM Mike Rizzo is close to inking an extension also.<\/p>\n<p>The current deals of the manager and the general manager are until the end of the campaign, part of the uncertainty around an organization that is rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p>The manager\u2019s record with the MLB franchise from the US capital is 378-455, a .454 winning %.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-MLB player became the head coach of the Nationals in 2018, his 1<sup>st<\/sup> managerial job in the league. The next campaign, the organization started with a 19-31 record before stars such as Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer, Juan Soto, Anthony Rendon, and Trea Turner made it happen for Washington to play in the NL wild-card berth.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Washington won against Houston Astros in Game 7 of the World Series for the organization&#8217;s 1<sup>st<\/sup> championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Nationals head coach Dave Martinez has agreed to a 2-year deal extension with the franchise he led to the 2019 World Series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456050,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,17011],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[19877,19876,12402],"acf":{"announce":"He will keep his manager job in Washington,","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456049"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456049"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}