{"id":1452,"date":"2023-04-04T19:17:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T00:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:25","slug":"williams-crushes-swats-splinters-back-in-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Williams Crushes Swats, Splinters Back in 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsTed-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsTed-scaled.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsTed-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsTed-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsTed-scaled.jpg?w=1306 1306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Boston ace Gaylord Perry took a shutout into the 9th, and Ted Williams went 4 for 5 with 2 homers and 3 RBI as the Splinters topped the New York Swats to retake sole possession of 1st place. New York Swats starter Stan Coveleski fell to 0-3 in the loss, allowing 6 runs on 11 hits in 8 innings. Williams&#8217; 2 homers give him 10 on the season, tying him with Detroit&#8217;s \u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez. Williams is now hitting a league-best .411. Gaylord Perry allowed just 4 hits through the first 8 innings but tired in the 9th, losing the shutout on a Jimmie Foxx RBI double. Lefty Grove finished the game. Perry allowed 3 runs on 8 hits, picking up his 5th win of the season. Boston is now 18-13, moving ahead of Detroit by 1\/2 a game in the American League. New York fell to 13-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Boston @ New York &#8211; 5\/7\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston ace Gaylord Perry took a shutout into the 9th, and Ted Williams went 4 for 5 with 2 homers and 3 RBI as the Splinters topped the New York Swats to retake sole possession of 1st place. New York Swats starter Stan Coveleski fell to 0-3 in the loss, allowing 6 runs on 11 [&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-1452","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\/1452","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=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}