{"id":1719,"date":"2023-07-20T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:34","slug":"boston-jackd-splinters-loss-sends-rockets-to-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"Boston Jack&#8217;d, Splinters Loss Sends Rockets to the Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BrettGeorge-229x300.png?resize=229%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BrettGeorge.png?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BrettGeorge.png?resize=98%2C128&amp;ssl=1 98w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BrettGeorge.png?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/BrettGeorge.png?w=275&amp;ssl=1 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It only took one inning for Boston&#8217;s hopes of a pennant to be dashed. Splinters starter Jim Palmer left in the 1st inning with a blister, but not before the Oakland Jacks put up 7 runs and batted around. George Brett had a 2-run double, and Joe DiMaggio followed with a 2-run home run. Brett would end 3 for 4 and a homer short of the cycle. Rod Carew hit a 2-out grand slam to cap the inning. Boston did fight their way back against Jack Morris. Lou Gehrig hit 2 homers and Harmon Killebrew had a solo shot to help close the gap. The score was 9-8 in the bottom of the 6th when Oakland had another big inning, this time against Red Ruffing. Ruffing walked in two runs, walking 4 straight batters as the Jacks batted around for the 2nd time, scoring 6 runs to pull away again. This time, Boston had no response. Oakland won it 15-9 to eliminate the Splinters from a shot at the American League pennant. That sends the Detroit Rockets to the World Series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Boston @ Oakland &#8211; 5\/27\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only took one inning for Boston&#8217;s hopes of a pennant to be dashed. Splinters starter Jim Palmer left in the 1st inning with a blister, but not before the Oakland Jacks put up 7 runs and batted around. George Brett had a 2-run double, and Joe DiMaggio followed with a 2-run home run. Brett [&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-1719","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\/1719","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=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}