{"id":1544,"date":"2023-05-09T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:28","slug":"boston-puts-a-big-hurt-on-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"Boston Puts a Big Hurt on Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ThomasFrank-215x300.jpg?resize=215%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ThomasFrank.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ThomasFrank.jpg?resize=92%2C128&amp;ssl=1 92w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ThomasFrank.jpg?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ThomasFrank.jpg?w=429&amp;ssl=1 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Oakland Jacks starter Bert Blyleven allowed 8 hits and walked 7, including 3 in the 4th inning when he also walked in a run, but still only allowed that one earned run in 8 innings of work. Boston&#8217;s Pedro Martinez had some bad luck when he took a 3-hit shutout into the 8th, losing it when Nellie Fox doubled in 2 runs. Mariano Rivera came in to close out the 9th for Oakland. Rickey Henderson and Tony Oliva grounded out, but Ted Williams drew a walk. Frank Thomas followed, taking the first pitch he saw from Rivera deep for a walk-off 2-run homer to win it for Boston 3-2. Boston improved to 20-16 with the win in this first game of a doubleheader thanks to a rain postponement yesterday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=569-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Oakland @ Boston (Game 1) &#8211; 5\/14\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland Jacks starter Bert Blyleven allowed 8 hits and walked 7, including 3 in the 4th inning when he also walked in a run, but still only allowed that one earned run in 8 innings of work. Boston&#8217;s Pedro Martinez had some bad luck when he took a 3-hit shutout into the 8th, losing it [&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-1544","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\/1544","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=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}