{"id":1219,"date":"2022-12-18T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T02:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:18","slug":"dynamos-destroy-hoots-nearly-set-single-game-hr-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1219","title":{"rendered":"Dynamos Destroy Hoots, Nearly Set Single-Game HR Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"653\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoufaxSandy.png?fit=653%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-924\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoufaxSandy.png?w=168&amp;ssl=1 168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoufaxSandy.png?resize=86%2C128&amp;ssl=1 86w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/KoufaxSandy.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles humiliated the Houston Hoots in both hitting and pitching. The Dynamos&#8217; Sandy Koufax hurled his first shutout of the season, allowing just 6 hits and walking 2 while striking out 6. But the real story was the LA offense, who hit 9 homers, just one shy of the Toronto Blue Jays MLB record set in 1987. Johnny Bench set the tone in the 1st inning off Houston&#8217;s Randy Johnson with a 3-run shot. Bench was then ejected in the bottom of the inning while catching for arguing on a close pitch that led to a Ryne Sandberg walk. Johnson gave up 6 homers in 3 innings of work, exiting with a 10-0 deficit. Rube Marquard gave up 3 homers in 3 innings of relief. All told, Chuck Klein and WIllie Mays hit back-to-back homers twice, once in the 2nd and once in the 4th. Johnny Mize and Frank Robinson went back-to-back in the 3rd, and Mize added another homer an inning later. Jackie Robinson also hit a homer in the 3rd. Los Angeles scored 14 runs on 19 hits to improve to 8-10. Houston is now 6-12 and will look to rebound with a severely depleted bullpen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Los Angeles @ Houston &#8211; 4\/19\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles humiliated the Houston Hoots in both hitting and pitching. The Dynamos&#8217; Sandy Koufax hurled his first shutout of the season, allowing just 6 hits and walking 2 while striking out 6. But the real story was the LA offense, who hit 9 homers, just one shy of the Toronto Blue Jays MLB record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pops-s1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}