{"id":2102,"date":"2023-12-05T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:24","slug":"appier-royals-on-top-in-duel-with-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Appier, Royals on Top in Duel with Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AppierKevinKC.jpg?resize=180%2C273&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AppierKevinKC.jpg?w=180&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AppierKevinKC.jpg?resize=84%2C128&amp;ssl=1 84w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/AppierKevinKC.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Appier took a 2-hit shutout into the 9th, and the Kansas City Royals did just enough against Wilbur Wood, outdueling the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 win and advancing in the Baseball Maelstrom Tournament. Amos Otis broke a scoreless tie in the 7th, hitting an RBI single off Wood. Mike Sweeney added an important insurance run with a solo home run in the 9th off D\u00e1maso Mart\u00e9. Appier was one out away from a shutout when Dick Allen hit a solo shot. Greg Holland retired Carl Reynolds to pick up his 2nd save, sending the White Sox home. Wood allowed just 5 hits and a run in 8 innings, but still picked up the loss. The Royals advance to play the Yankees tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=kansas-city-chicago-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kansas City @ Chicago (A) &#8211; 10\/3\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Appier took a 2-hit shutout into the 9th, and the Kansas City Royals did just enough against Wilbur Wood, outdueling the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 win and advancing in the Baseball Maelstrom Tournament. Amos Otis broke a scoreless tie in the 7th, hitting an RBI single off Wood. Mike Sweeney added an [&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-2102","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\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}