{"id":2213,"date":"2023-12-31T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T21:23:26","slug":"swift-ends-cards-comeback-a-rod-hr-takes-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Swift Ends Cards Comeback, A-Rod HR Takes Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RodriguezAlexSEA-207x300.jpg?resize=207%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RodriguezAlexSEA.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RodriguezAlexSEA.jpg?resize=88%2C128&amp;ssl=1 88w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RodriguezAlexSEA.jpg?resize=22%2C32&amp;ssl=1 22w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RodriguezAlexSEA.jpg?w=314&amp;ssl=1 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez kept the St. Louis Cardinals off-balance for 6 innings. Meanwhile, back-to-back Seattle base hits against Bob Gibson put the Mariners up 2-0. Finally in the 7th, Hern\u00e1ndez tired, allowing a 2-run single to Joe Torre to tie the game. Pinch-hitter Willie McGee walked to load the bases before reliever Bill Swift struck out Yadier Molina and got Lou Brock to line out. Stan Musial&#8217;s slump continued as he struck out with the bases loaded to end the inning. In the 8th, \u00c1lex Rodr\u00edguez launched his 1st home run of the Tournament, a solo shot that gave Seattle a 3-2 lead. Ozzie Smith doubled in the 9th with 2 out, but J.J. Putz got Jim Bottomley to ground out to end the game, giving the Seattle Mariners a 3-2 victory and putting them one win away from winning the Tournament. The Cardinals will need to win the next 2 games to stop them. Hisashi Iwakuma is set to face John Tudor in Game 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?sp_event=seattle-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Seattle @ St. Louis &#8211; 10\/10\/23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9lix Hern\u00e1ndez kept the St. Louis Cardinals off-balance for 6 innings. Meanwhile, back-to-back Seattle base hits against Bob Gibson put the Mariners up 2-0. Finally in the 7th, Hern\u00e1ndez tired, allowing a 2-run single to Joe Torre to tie the game. Pinch-hitter Willie McGee walked to load the bases before reliever Bill Swift struck out [&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-2213","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\/2213","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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}