{"id":1703,"date":"2023-07-14T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:33","slug":"rod-kets-relentless-sweep-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1703","title":{"rendered":"Rod-kets Relentless, Sweep Jacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"211\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RodriguezAlex.png?resize=211%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RodriguezAlex.png?w=211&amp;ssl=1 211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RodriguezAlex.png?resize=92%2C128&amp;ssl=1 92w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RodriguezAlex.png?resize=23%2C32&amp;ssl=1 23w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez was 3 for 5 with 2 home runs and 3 RBI as the Detroit Rockets took advantage of 3 Oakland errors and a big 10th to win 11-6 in extra innings to sweep the Jacks. Charlie Blackwell scored unearned runs in the 1st and 3rd thanks to errors by Mickey Cochrane and Rod Carew. Oakland&#8217;s Tris Speaker hit his 1st homer of the season, this against Detroit starter David Cone, to give the Jacks a 6-4 lead in the 3rd, but Rodr\u00edguez 2nd homer in the 5th tied things back up. Oakland&#8217;s Jim Kaat left the game after 7 innings, having allowed 4 earned runs and 8 hits. In the 10th, Rodr\u00edguez led off the inning with a single and Minnie Mi\u00f1oso bobbled a Manny Ram\u00edrez flyball. Mark McGwire followed with a 3-run homer en route to a 5-run Detroit inning against Ted Lyons. The Rockets improved to 31-19 and hold a 4-game lead over Boston with just 4 left to play. They also cut the St. Louis Wizards&#8217; lead for home-field advantage in the World Series to 2 1\/2 games. With the 4-game sweep of Oakland, Detroit has now won 5 straight heading to their final series with the last-place New York Swats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Detroit @ Oakland &#8211; 5\/26\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez was 3 for 5 with 2 home runs and 3 RBI as the Detroit Rockets took advantage of 3 Oakland errors and a big 10th to win 11-6 in extra innings to sweep the Jacks. Charlie Blackwell scored unearned runs in the 1st and 3rd thanks to errors by Mickey Cochrane and Rod [&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-1703","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\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}