{"id":1323,"date":"2023-02-02T20:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:21","slug":"houston-comes-up-short-in-the-clutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Houston Comes Up Short in the Clutch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GwynnTony.png?resize=204%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GwynnTony.png?w=204&amp;ssl=1 204w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GwynnTony.png?resize=89%2C128&amp;ssl=1 89w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GwynnTony.png?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony Gwynn was 3 for 3 with a walk, scoring two key runs to lead the St. Louis Wizards over the Houston Hoots at the Astrodome. Wizards starter John Smoltz allowed just 2 runs, both on solo homers,  and 8 hits in 7 innings, but Houston had several chances to tie the game. The Hoots left the bases loaded in the 6th after Jeff Bagwell led off the inning with a walk and got caught stealing by Ted Simmons. In the 8th, Smoltz allowed a leadoff homer to Billy Williams and a single to Ryne Sandberg. Fergie Jenkins then struck out Duke Snider, but Hank Aaron followed with a single to put the tying run on 3rd. Mel Ott dribbled one back to Jenkins, and Gary Carter flew out to left to end the inning. Bruce Sutter followed with a 1-2-3 inning in the 9th for his Baseball Maelstrom-leading 8th save. The Wizards improved to 19-5, while the Hoots fell to 9-15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">St. Louis @ Houston &#8211; 4\/25\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Gwynn was 3 for 3 with a walk, scoring two key runs to lead the St. Louis Wizards over the Houston Hoots at the Astrodome. Wizards starter John Smoltz allowed just 2 runs, both on solo homers, and 8 hits in 7 innings, but Houston had several chances to tie the game. The Hoots [&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-1323","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\/1323","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=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}