{"id":2028,"date":"2023-11-16T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:23","slug":"mcgwire-jacks-2-late-pirate-rally-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"McGwire Jacks 2, Late Pirate Rally Falls Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McGwireMarkSTL-228x300.jpg?resize=228%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McGwireMarkSTL.jpg?resize=228%2C300&amp;ssl=1 228w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McGwireMarkSTL.jpg?resize=97%2C128&amp;ssl=1 97w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McGwireMarkSTL.jpg?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McGwireMarkSTL.jpg?w=424&amp;ssl=1 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark McGwire hit two home runs and drove in 3 against Pittsburgh Pirates starter Steve Blass to lead the St. Louis Cardinals offense. Joe Torre added a 2-run double in the 5th. Meanwhile, Mort Cooper allowed just a run on 4 hits until the 8th, but he nearly blew it. Cooper gave up a 2-run 2-out homer to Ralph Kiner in the 8th, followed by a single to Brian Giles and an RBI triple by Dave Parker that cut the lead to 5-4. Todd Worrell got Pie Traynor to ground out to end the inning. In the 9th, Jason Kendall reached on a single with one out against Bruce Sutter, but Barry Bonds grounded into a double play to end the game. The Cardinals were outhit 8-6 hits in the game, but it was enough to advance with the 5-4 win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=pittsburgh-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pittsburgh @ St. Louis &#8211; 10\/2\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McGwire hit two home runs and drove in 3 against Pittsburgh Pirates starter Steve Blass to lead the St. Louis Cardinals offense. Joe Torre added a 2-run double in the 5th. Meanwhile, Mort Cooper allowed just a run on 4 hits until the 8th, but he nearly blew it. Cooper gave up a 2-run [&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-2028","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\/2028","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=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}