{"id":2108,"date":"2023-12-06T09:54:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:24","slug":"giants-smash-grays-advance-in-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2108","title":{"rendered":"Giants Smash Grays, Advance in Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/KentJeffSF.jpg?resize=220%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/KentJeffSF.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/KentJeffSF.jpg?resize=101%2C128&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/KentJeffSF.jpg?resize=25%2C32&amp;ssl=1 25w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Kent led off the do-or-die game against the Homestead Grays with a double, scoring when Mel Ott doubled him home. Even though Sam Bankhead&#8217;s 2-run single in the 2nd put Homestead up 2-1 early, Kent and the San Francisco Giants were just getting started. The 2nd inning would be the only inning that the Giants were scoreless. The Giants scored 4 runs in the 3rd thanks to three more doubles, including another by Kent. When Kent hit a 3-run homer in the 4th, it ended Edsall Walker&#8217;s day. But reliever Wilmer Fields walked 7, as none of the Grays pitchers could figure out the San Francisco lineup. Giants starter Juan Marichal was far from perfect, allowing 4 runs on 9 hits in 7 innings, and Jeremy Affeldt didn&#8217;t help, allowing 3 runs himself, but it didn&#8217;t matter as the Giants bats romped to a 16-7 win. Kent finished 5 for 6 with 2 doubles, a homer, 4 runs scored, and 4 RBI. Sam Bankhead, the #9 hitter for Homestead was 4 for 5 with 3 RBI in the losing effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=homestead-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Homestead @ San Francisco &#8211; 10\/3\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kent led off the do-or-die game against the Homestead Grays with a double, scoring when Mel Ott doubled him home. Even though Sam Bankhead&#8217;s 2-run single in the 2nd put Homestead up 2-1 early, Kent and the San Francisco Giants were just getting started. The 2nd inning would be the only inning that the [&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-2108","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\/2108","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=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}