{"id":1609,"date":"2023-06-10T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T01:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:30","slug":"wizards-outlast-hoots-extend-nl-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Wizards Outlast Hoots, Extend NL Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SimmonsTed.png?resize=184%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SimmonsTed.png?w=184&amp;ssl=1 184w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SimmonsTed.png?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SimmonsTed.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Carlton scattered 8 hits, allowing 3 runs in 7 innings of work, as the St. Louis Wizards topped the Houston Hoots. All 3 Hoots runs came in the 3rd inning. The Wizards responded by scoring 4 in the 4th against Phil Niekro. The runs came on back-to-back 2-out 2-run singles from Ozzie Smith and Oscar Charleston. A Mike Schmidt error with 2 out in the 9th allowed 3 more unearned runs to score off Houston reliever Rube Marquard. Two of those runs came from a double by Ted Simmons. Simmons went 4 for 5 in the game to boost his average to .302. The Wizards improved to 29-14 and now hold a 4 1\/2 game lead over Los Angeles in the National League. With just 11 games left to go, can anybody catch them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">St. Louis @ Houston &#8211; 5\/19\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Carlton scattered 8 hits, allowing 3 runs in 7 innings of work, as the St. Louis Wizards topped the Houston Hoots. All 3 Hoots runs came in the 3rd inning. The Wizards responded by scoring 4 in the 4th against Phil Niekro. The runs came on back-to-back 2-out 2-run singles from Ozzie Smith and [&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-1609","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\/1609","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=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}