{"id":1481,"date":"2023-04-15T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2024-03-28T20:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T01:31:25","slug":"oaklands-jacks-too-much-for-swats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Oakland&#8217;s Jacks Too Much for Swats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MussinaMike-214x300.png?resize=214%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MussinaMike.png?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MussinaMike.png?resize=91%2C128&amp;ssl=1 91w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MussinaMike.png?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MussinaMike.png?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland&#8217;s Mike Mussina allowed 3 runs on just 4 hits in 6 innings, and the Jacks offense hit three 2-run homers against New York&#8217;s Walter Johnson to win it 8-5 and hold the Swats from tying them in the American League standings. Mickey Cochrane got things started for Oakland in the 2nd inning with the first of the 2-run shots. George Brett followed with another in the next inning, giving Oakland a 4-0 lead. Ty Cobb&#8217;s 2-run double in the 5th cut the Oakland lead, but Reggie Jackson hit another 2-run homer off Johnson the very next inning to extend the lead again. Mariano Rivera collected his 5th save with a scoreless 9th for the 8-5 win. Mussina improved to 6-1 with the win. New York fell to 14-20, the first American League team with 20 losses. Meanwhile, Oakland is now 15-18 to stay out of the cellar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=624\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Oakland @ New York &#8211; 5\/9\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland&#8217;s Mike Mussina allowed 3 runs on just 4 hits in 6 innings, and the Jacks offense hit three 2-run homers against New York&#8217;s Walter Johnson to win it 8-5 and hold the Swats from tying them in the American League standings. Mickey Cochrane got things started for Oakland in the 2nd inning with the [&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-1481","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\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}