{"id":1740,"date":"2023-07-25T15:14:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:35","slug":"niekro-shuts-down-dynamos-in-final-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Niekro Shuts Down Dynamos in Final Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=169%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?w=169&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NiekroPhil.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Phil Niekro quieted the Los Angeles Dynamos&#8217; bats in his final start of the season, improving to 5-5 and allowing just 3 hits and a run in 8 innings as the Houston Hoots topped the Dynamos 4-1. The sole LA run came on a solo homer from Eddie Mathews. The LA offense has struggled down the stretch, but they had won their prior two games. Pete Alexander picked up the loss, allowing 4 runs on 11 hits in 7 innings. Pop Lloyd was 3 for 4 with an RBI, and Willie Stargell had a solo homer to lead the Houston offense. Lee Smith pitched a perfect 9th for his 14th save. Houston is 25-27 and is now just a game behind the 2nd-place Dynamos in the National League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Los Angeles @ Houston &#8211; 5\/29\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Niekro quieted the Los Angeles Dynamos&#8217; bats in his final start of the season, improving to 5-5 and allowing just 3 hits and a run in 8 innings as the Houston Hoots topped the Dynamos 4-1. The sole LA run came on a solo homer from Eddie Mathews. The LA offense has struggled down [&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-1740","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\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}