{"id":2206,"date":"2023-12-30T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:26","slug":"big-mac-late-rally-send-cards-to-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"Big Mac, Late Rally Send Cards to Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CooperMortSTL-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CooperMortSTL.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CooperMortSTL.jpg?resize=96%2C128&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CooperMortSTL.jpg?resize=24%2C32&amp;ssl=1 24w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CooperMortSTL.jpg?w=227&amp;ssl=1 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 6 innings, Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez lived again. Just 7 years after a boating accident tragically ended his life, Fern\u00e1ndez kept the St. Louis Cardinals lineup off balance, allowing just 1 hit into the 7th. Meanwhile, Mort Cooper was nearly as good, but faltered in the 5th. Miami Marlins hitters put up 4 straight hits and broke a scoreless tie to take a 2-0 lead. Finally, in the 7th, Rogers Hornsby led off with just the 2nd Cardinals base hit, and Mark McGwire followed with his 6th home run of the Tournament. All 6 of his Tournament hits have been homers. Miami had a chance to retake the lead in the 8th, with runners on the corners and 1 out, but Al Hrabosky came in and shut them down. After Lou Brock walked and stole 2nd and 3rd in the bottom of the inning, Stan Musial hit a come-backer that A.J. Ramos couldn&#8217;t handle. That error opened the door to 3 Cardinal runs, 2 of them unearned. That was enough for Bruce Sutter, who picked up his 4th save with a perfect 9th, as the Cardinals won it 5-2 and knocked out the Marlins. That sends them to the Championship to face the Seattle Mariners. With both teams a perfect 5-0, it&#8217;ll essentially be a best of 3 series to decide the winner. Fern\u00e1ndez still finished allowing just 4 hits and 2 runs in 6 1\/3 innings. Cooper allowed 7 hits and 2 runs in 7 1\/3. Hornsby and Joe Torre were both 2 for 3 and are hitting .471 in the Tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=miami-st-louis-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Miami @ St. Louis &#8211; 10\/8\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 6 innings, Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez lived again. Just 7 years after a boating accident tragically ended his life, Fern\u00e1ndez kept the St. Louis Cardinals lineup off balance, allowing just 1 hit into the 7th. Meanwhile, Mort Cooper was nearly as good, but faltered in the 5th. Miami Marlins hitters put up 4 straight hits and [&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-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmb-tournament"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}