{"id":1510,"date":"2023-04-27T19:54:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T00:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:28","slug":"musials-12th-hr-cant-save-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Musial&#8217;s 12th HR Can&#8217;t Save Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsBilly.png?resize=157%2C246&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsBilly.png?w=157&amp;ssl=1 157w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsBilly.png?resize=82%2C128&amp;ssl=1 82w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/WilliamsBilly.png?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what has become a common theme lately, the St. Louis Wizards found themselves playing from behind.  The Houston Hoots scored 5 runs in the 3rd off starter John Smoltz thanks to 5 straight base hits. The Wizards got 3 runs back on back-to-back doubles from Larry Walker and Stan Musial in the bottom of the 3rd. Musial hit his league-leading 12th homer in the 5th and St. Louis scored another run in the 6th to close the Hoots lead to one run, but Gary Carter hit a solo homer in the 7th off reliever Fergie Jenkins to give Houston some breathing room. Lee Smith pitched a perfect 9th for his 10th save of the season, as Houston topped the Wizards 7-5. St. Louis&#8217; lead in the National League is now just 1 1\/2 games over LA. Houston&#8217;s Billy Williams was 4 for 5 with 2 RBI in the game. Bob Gibson did just enough, allowing the 5 St. Louis runs in 7 innings to pick up his 4th win. Houston improved to 16-20, while the Wizards fell to 23-13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Houston @ St. Louis &#8211; 5\/11\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has become a common theme lately, the St. Louis Wizards found themselves playing from behind. The Houston Hoots scored 5 runs in the 3rd off starter John Smoltz thanks to 5 straight base hits. The Wizards got 3 runs back on back-to-back doubles from Larry Walker and Stan Musial in the bottom of [&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-1510","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\/1510","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=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}