{"id":1759,"date":"2023-07-31T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:14:35","slug":"heltons-homer-tops-wizards-in-final-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Helton&#8217;s Homer Tops Wizards in Final Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HeltonTodd.png?resize=191%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HeltonTodd.png?w=191&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HeltonTodd.png?resize=83%2C128&amp;ssl=1 83w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/HeltonTodd.png?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Chicago Docs ended the season on a high note, holding on to beat the St. Louis Wizards 6-5 at Wrigley Field. Todd Helton hit a 2-out, 3-run home run in the 3rd that put the Docs ahead for good. Roy Oswalt was given his 1st start of the season and allowed just 3 runs in 6 innings to pick up his 1st win after a season in the bullpen. Billy Wagner earned his 11th save. For Wizards starter Robin Roberts, the disappointment continued. Roberts allowed 6 runs on 12 hits in 7 innings to fall to 3-7. He&#8217;s lost his last 7 decisions dating back to April 21st. Stan Musial hit his Maelstrom-leading 17th homer. Chicago finished 19-35, while St. Louis prepares for their trip to the World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">St. Louis @ Chicago &#8211; 5\/31\/22<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Docs ended the season on a high note, holding on to beat the St. Louis Wizards 6-5 at Wrigley Field. Todd Helton hit a 2-out, 3-run home run in the 3rd that put the Docs ahead for good. Roy Oswalt was given his 1st start of the season and allowed just 3 runs [&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-1759","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\/1759","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=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}