{"id":1316,"date":"2023-01-30T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T02:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:21","slug":"pujols-breakout-comes-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Pujols Breakout Comes Up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=219%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?w=219&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=95%2C128&amp;ssl=1 95w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PujolsAlbert.png?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chicago Docs had high hopes when Albert Pujols retired from Major League Baseball and joined the team in the Baseball Maelstrom. But after 8 games with the team, Pujols was hitting just .188 with just one extra-base hit (a double), an RBI, and a walk. That changed today. Pujols reached on an error and scored in the 2nd, but followed that with a solo homerun and doubles in each of his next two at bats against Los Angeles Dynamos starter Don Drysdale. Chicago Docs starter Orel Hershiser carried a 5-2 lead into the 6th, but Frank Robinson homered with 2 on and 2 out to tie the game. The Dynamos took advantage of a couple of Roy Oswalt walks in the 8th to take a 7-5 lead. Pujols faced LA closer Goose Gossage with a runner on and one out in the 9th, but grounded into a double play to end the game. Los Angeles improved to 12-12, while Chicago fell to 8-16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chicago @ Los Angeles &#8211; 4\/25\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Docs had high hopes when Albert Pujols retired from Major League Baseball and joined the team in the Baseball Maelstrom. But after 8 games with the team, Pujols was hitting just .188 with just one extra-base hit (a double), an RBI, and a walk. That changed today. Pujols reached on an error and [&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-1316","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\/1316","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=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}