{"id":1289,"date":"2023-01-19T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T02:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:20","slug":"big-2nd-sinks-niekro-and-hoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Big 2nd Sinks Niekro and Hoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CepedaOrlando.png?resize=172%2C249&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CepedaOrlando.png?w=172&amp;ssl=1 172w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CepedaOrlando.png?resize=88%2C128&amp;ssl=1 88w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CepedaOrlando.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houston Hoots starter Phil Niekro allowed 7 hits in the first two innings before settling down, but that was all the St. Louis Wizards needed. Niekro allowed a 2-run homer in the 2nd to Orlando Cepeda, his 2nd of the season. Three batters later, Ted Simmons added a 2-run double. Those 4 runs held up with Wizards ace Steve Carlton on the mound. Carlton allowed a run in the 1st and a solo homer to Gary Carter in the 8th, but just 5 hits total, while striking out 9 to pick up his 4th win. The Wizards improved to 18-4, while Houston fell to 8-14. Bruce Sutter pitched a perfect 9th for his league-leading 7th save. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Houston @ St. Louis &#8211; 4\/23\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Hoots starter Phil Niekro allowed 7 hits in the first two innings before settling down, but that was all the St. Louis Wizards needed. Niekro allowed a 2-run homer in the 2nd to Orlando Cepeda, his 2nd of the season. Three batters later, Ted Simmons added a 2-run double. Those 4 runs held up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","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\/1289","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=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}