{"id":2003,"date":"2023-11-07T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:22","slug":"seattle-bats-pummel-stieb-advance-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Bats Pummel Stieb, Advance Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GriffeyJrKenSEA-187x300.jpg?resize=187%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GriffeyJrKenSEA.jpg?resize=187%2C300&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GriffeyJrKenSEA.jpg?resize=80%2C128&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GriffeyJrKenSEA.jpg?resize=20%2C32&amp;ssl=1 20w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GriffeyJrKenSEA.jpg?w=195&amp;ssl=1 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Seattle Mariners again showed that they were better than their #16 seed would suggest, topping the #8 seeded Toronto Blue Jays 7-4. Ken Griffey Jr&#8217;s 3-run home run capped a 6-run 2nd inning against Dave Stieb. Griffey ended 3 for 5. Kenji Johjima was 2 for 4 with a double, triple, and 3 RBI. Stieb was pulled when he hit Jay Buhner to lead off the 3rd. Meanwhile, Randy Johnson allowed 3 runs on 5 hits in 6 innings, striking out 7 to pick up the win. George Bell hit a 2-run shot for the Blue Jays to lead their offense. Griffey has homered in both games so far in the tournament. The victory moves Seattle into the Elite 8 of the tournament winner&#8217;s bracket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=09-seattle-toronto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Seattle @ Toronto &#8211; 10\/2\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners again showed that they were better than their #16 seed would suggest, topping the #8 seeded Toronto Blue Jays 7-4. Ken Griffey Jr&#8217;s 3-run home run capped a 6-run 2nd inning against Dave Stieb. Griffey ended 3 for 5. Kenji Johjima was 2 for 4 with a double, triple, and 3 RBI. [&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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmb-tournament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}